I think Gonzalo's notions of government have a flaw similar to Strachey's, JOAN. Strachey
thinks only the lower classes should work; Gonzalo thinks nobody should have to work.
![Huh ???](https://seniorlearn.org/forum/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
These castaways believe their ship is wrecked. So unless another ship happens by this
out-of-the-way island, they are stuck. And of course we've already been wondering why
they would bother to fight over the lordship of this wild scrap.
Alas, I fear Ovid's few of the primal nature was pure romance. But then, so was Gonzalo's.
From what bits of the history of those times I know, there was competition for the
leadership of the small tribes. If food was scarce, there was competition for what was
available. Feeding oneself and one's family...survival...was the imperative. The strong
oppressed the weak.
If any of you have different informaton on primitive man, please educate me!
JOANP, if I understand their agreement correctly, Antonio will help Sebastian to the
kingship of Milan, and in return Sebastian is to lighten the 'taxes' Naples pays to Milan.
Naples is to enjoy a preferred status and special privileges.
Poor Claribel. We don't know that she found her new husband distasteful, or that she will
be unhappy in Tunis. But of course she would loathe the idea of leaving behind her home,
family, friends and all she knew, to marry a strange man in a strange country. I decided
early on, based on my reading, that belonging to the nobility/royalty had severe drawbacks!
Notes: Caliban's closing taunt toward Prospero at the end of Sc. II sounds so much like a small boy's.
"Ban, Ban, Caliban, has a new master. Get a new man!" And pignuts! Did you know what pignuts are? " Pignuts (earthnuts) ..a somewhat bitter nut popular with pigs." Our hickory tree is apparently a variety of pignut tree. Anyone eaten
any hickory nuts? Were they the 'pignut' variety?