Kill Our Literary Inheritance

The article “The Best Way to Kill Our Literary Inheritance” written by Mr. Stephen Greenblatt tells of how English teachers of today are misinterpreting The Tempest. They are telling students/people that The Tempest is about imperialism rather than colonialism. The Tempest teaches us about how forgiveness, wisdom and social atonement are directly intertwined with colonialism, Greenblatt states “It is similarly difficult to come to terms with what The Tempest has to teach us about forgiveness, wisdom, and social atonement if we do not also come to terms with its relations to colonialism”. The Tempest teaches us that Forgiveness, wisdom and social atonement are needed in order to bring attention to how harsh and cruel colonialism really