At some point Prospero claims that he enlightened Caliban from his primitivism and illiteracy to the modern lifestyle. However, Caliban immediately respond that “[Prospero] didn’t teach [Caliban] a thing! Except to jabber in your own language so that [Caliban] could understand your orders…All your science [Prospero] keep for yourself alone, shut up in those big books” (Cesaire 17). Cesaire also states that between the colonizer and colonized there is room only forced labor, intimidation, taxation, domination, and submission which turn the colonizing man into a class room monitor, a slave driver, and the indigenous man into an instrument of production (Cesaire 52). Cesaire produces a prime example of an oppressed colonized character by the
