Opposing Views

George Will and Stephen Greenblatt have opposing arguments on The Tempest and what ideas are presented in this piece of Shakespeare's writing. Their completely disagree on how Shakespeare represents Imperialism in The Tempest. George Will believes that the The Tempest revolves around political views, however Greenblatt feels completely contrary to this idea. 
    George Will states, "All literature is, whether writers are conscious of it or not, political." Will claims that every piece of writing has some sort of latent content behind it that serves as a political view point. I do not agree with this statement completely. I believe that some writing serves as a political but definitely not all writing. I think that some writing is just for entertainment and it should be read as it is and that there is no need for further analysis. On the other hand some writing has tons of underlying meaning that needs to be analyzed in order to get the full meaning that the author was trying to portray. Stephen Greenblatt declares, "And it is similarly difficult to come to terms with what The Tempest has to teach us about forgiveness, wisdom, and social atonement if we do not also come to terms with its relations to colonialism." The Tempest presents many ideas that teach many lessons not just on the subject of colonialism. I agree with this because most pieces of writing have more than one hidden meaning that tries to teach us something. There can be many ways of interpreting writing rather than just seeing it as a political piece of literature. Having more than one point in writing gives more meaning to the text and in my opinion makes it more interesting. When there are different ways to interpret a certain text it allows readers to dig deeper and get more out of the writing.