Tempest in the Wilderness

7. How did Shakespeare's "The Tempest" depict Caliban? How was this depiction related to Natives?
In the play, Caliban was described as being "a devil, a born devil", along with physical traits that made him out to seem naturally immoral, unable of advanced thought, and incapable of education. These descriptions corellate directly to the natives in the way the English saw them, leading to the notion that the English, or whites, were superior to the natives, or others with darker skin.

8. What did the Puritans fear from the natives?
The Puritans externalized their fears of the body, sexuality, laziness, sin, and the loss of self-control onto the natives, which by means of justifying this, they directly related those fears with the natives, and by doing so, came to the rationalization that the natives, were in fact, in service to the Devil, or allied with the Devil in some way.

13. Why were the natives and Irish treated like savages?The natives and Irish were treated as savages because of the English's need to justify the massacre of indigineous peoples in order to obtain more land for their growing population. Because of their faith, especially with the Puritans, they easily accepted that the bible, and therefore God, wanted them to exterminate the other populations so that their societies would remain pure and free of sinners.