Description of the play as a discourse of criticism and derision: its structure, the (i)moral values it portrays (ambition, materialism, violence, deception and non-religiousness) and the ways in which it condemns the collonial state. 

Connection with other authors such as Luís de Camões and Fernão Mendes Pinto, whose literary texts also present a tension between "glory" and "downfall"; and Edward Saïd's postcolonial concept of "contrapuntal reading".