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Note that the bad guys in that scene get to point out the inherent paradoxes and inconsistencies of G's picture. Which is not to say that Sh is totally ridiculing it, just that he is aware of the gap between utopia and reality. The whole play is a gloss on that idea; note that Prospero eventually gives up his otherworldly existence to return to the real world, with all its imperfections.Posted by Hamlet on March 22, 1997 at 12:40:15
In Reply to "Is Gonzalo's speach Shakespeare's Utopia?" posted by Shelby on March 21, 1997 at 20:23:51
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