Dear Prudence as an Interaction between East and West

One of the noteworthy songs to come out of the Beatles' celebrated 1968 trip to India was "Dear Prudence", authored by John Lennon. "Dear Prudence" is unique in its conjoining of Eastern sounds with a childlike Western theme, and as such it is particularly evident of the way in which Lennon in particular understood the possibilities of artistic hybrids involving the East and West. Moreover, the song can be analyzed by employing Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia two-volume series. With such an interpretation in mind, the call for Prudence to "come out and play" involves the sharing of attention of newfound interest in the East with a continued grounding in the familiar West. This is a new "plateau" that does no violence to the past nor to any actor in the present, but instead leads to a peaceful new beginning.