Analysis Of Caliban In The Tempest

Caliban a misunderstood soul. I plan to argue that Caliban was misjudge and seen as an evil savage, when in reality we judge him because we don’t understand his culture. My first view of Caliban a character in the book The Tempest by William Shakespeare, was that Caliban was a monster. However, after rereading and really trying to understand him. I came to the understand that he is misjudge and used by Prospero for his evil plan. We sometimes fear what we don’t understand. Like in the past, people have misunderstood people cultures and it have cost them more than feeling hurts but dead like an example the Indians. People in the past have done great damage to what they don’t understand. Prospero manipulated the situation to his advantage and …show more content…
He pointed out that Shakespeare’s character Caliban was taken from the word “Carib” was the name of an Indian tribe” (187). He goes on to describe in gruesome detail was people have done to Indians throughout time. Peoples lack of misunderstanding of cultural is was makes people fear what shouldn’t be feared. This is what sometimes cause people to do evil acts with the justification that they feel they are doing the right thing. Caliban is just like the Indians misunderstood used and then disposed of like a rage. Caliban feeling of betrayal was big, from a sense that he was obeying a god to the feeling of being used. The look that Caliban gave Prospero said more than any words. He clear said with that look, you call me savage and look at you, this is what I took from this scene. Caliban was used for his land like the Indians, for his serve like the Indians and ultimate put aside like the Indians. We took over the Indians land and relocated to land people didn’t want just like what Prospero …show more content…
Both of them which I have seen, however as horrible and scary as those movies are,” I am Legend” and “War of the World” (161). I know see that people are always too quick to judge just like Prospero did to Caliban. Alexander just like Prospero was quick to judge “Alexanders says at the guide who had brought us to this dreadful place. I had their legs broken and left them to be eaten alive by serpents…”(159). He was quick to through the blame on anyone but himself. This is also what Prospero did blamed his bad behavior on the poor savage of Caliban. Both this author has in common is that they both showed how Shakespeare in his book or play made a character to be portrayed an evil savage because this was what was popular back then. This still has not changed much either. This goes to clear show that whoever doesn’t has the power, or money really makes the rules of what is salvage. In order for Caliban to have gotten treated better he would had to have been white and of good religious cultural. Caliban was either rich nor educated therefore a salvage under Prospero eyes with less rights then an