Essay On Module A Exemplar (20/20)

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Literature’s fusion of contextual and intertextual influences creates a literary conversation that helps texts to transcend their respective contexts. Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, The Tempest (1611), examines the ethnic ‘other’ and the imprisonment caused by solipsism – the illusion that one’s mind is the only thing that is certain to exist. Inspired by Montaigne’s essay, Of Cannibals, Shakespeare embraces the boundary between cultural relativism and the universal denigration of the colonised that was prevalent during the predeterministic Jacobean era. Likewise, Atwood’s contemporary pastiche, Hag-Seed (2016)