#50:
Some English novelists wrote about the colonies (e.g. America, Australia, the West Indies) as lands of opportunity for crooks or "class jumping."
Australia was a penal colony. The UK deported convicts there under the sentence of "transportation" ("Go away").
In Great Expectations, Pip saves Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict. Abel goes on to make a fortune in Australia and quietly returns to the UK to become Pip's secret benefactor. The dark, sinister Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights goes "abroad" and returns to the UK a rich man in order to win over snobby Kathy. The reader is led to believe, but never told, that Heathcliff made his fortune in the immoral transatlantic slave trade.
In Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw), Eliza Doolittle's good-for-nothing father -- an embarrassing garbage collector with a deep Cockney accent-- unwantedly re-appears in her life after inheriting a fortune from an American philanthropist.
The more-open minded people of London, like the actors of the Globe Theater or their audiences, were happy to see the Puritans voluntarily depart for America, taking their illiberal, intolerant Christian ideas with them.
In all of Shakespeare's great works, he only mentions America once (The Comedy of Errors). His rival, Christopher Marlowe, also only mentions America once (Doctor Faustus); America is seen by both as places to earn fortunes. And in those days, that meant ruthless colonial exploitation of natural resources from weaker indigenous people.
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