The Tempest in the wilderness the Racialization of Savagery

The Tempest in the wilderness the Racialization of Savagery talks about how Shakespeare used the stories about people coming to settle the new world to write different plays. The article says that the play Tempest is about America and what occurred when the settlers came to live on this land. when the people of England saw these plays they knew that it was about America, because "the play provided clever clues that the story was indeed about America." (pg. 30) In this part of the article the author tells us that Shakespeare rearranged the letters in words, to make them seem made up, but the people knew that they were his way of telling them what was going on in America. For example Shakespeare rearranged the letters in Amleth, the name of the prince in the viking tale to become Hamlet. This shows that the story of Hamlet is really a story about the Vikings.I was wondering why Shakespeare decided to tell the people of England what was going on in America through these plays instead of just walking up to someone and saying, " did you know that this is whets happening with the settlers?" As I was reading I decided that maybe Shakespeare thought that no one would believe him if he went up to someone walking down the street and told them what was going on, or maybe the king did not want the people of England to know what was going on and he thought if he told the story about America in a "made up" story no one would know the difference.While I was reading this article I was having a hard time in the middle do to the descriptions of the violent acts that the settlers were performing onto the natives. I ended up having to take a few breaks because I did not like what I was reading, I could not believe anyone could do such things to people and not show the lets bit of what if this is wrong or these are people too we can't treat them this way. Something to show that they feel bad about what they are doing.