Caliban

In this essay, I will demonstrate that there is a strong, undeniable connection between music, magic and imagination in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Also, I will indicate their role in the mentioned literary text and in what way do they affect the main characters, the relationship between them. Imagination, understood as the ability to create new sensations and images in one’s mind, was considered by Pierre Charron to be the most active and stirring faculty of the soul — [imagination…

Shakespeare’s Caliban as an Analytical Tool in Post-Colonial Poetry Since his creation Shakespeare’s Caliban has famously informed a number of reinterpreted and expanded characters in major literary works spanning multiple centuries. Some works, such as Robert Browning’s “Caliban Upon Setebos,” explore the character in an outright and explicit manner that expands Caliban’s experience in new or different settings, whereas others, such as Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa,” indirectly explore…

The character Caliban in ‘The Tempest’ discovers a new master due to a need to escape from Prospero’s dominance and torture. The beginning of the play reveals that Caliban initially wishes to rules the island, as shown through his high modality language when he says “This island’s mine.” However, through his discovery of his own powerlessness against Prospero’s threats to “torment” as shown through Caliban’s high modality language “I must obey,” Caliban transforms to become subservient…

On another level, Caliban is so grateful to the drunken butler Stephano for the glorious gift of liquor that he acknowledges him as his master and pledges to be his loyal subject only if he were to murder Prospero. Caliban lures him further by marriage to Miranda. Stephano and Trinculo fall for the bait and are humiliated. Their plan is foiled much in the same manner as the plan of Antonio and Sebastian to seize the kingdom of Naples by going away with Alonso. Caliban was fooled by Stephano…

In March of 2016, Carthage College staged a new production entitled the Breath of Stars, which was advertised as a modern adaption of Shakespeare’s the Tempest. In the same month, the College of Lake County offered a traditional performance of the Tempest, which served as an excellent means by which to evaluate the relative proximity of Carthage’s production to Shakespeare’s original text. This essay will begin with a detailed description of the College of Lake County’s production of…

Caliban “loved” Prospero and had great respect for him, however discovering him being a “subject” to him, he hopes “A southwest blow on ye”. The contrast in language between “loved” and “southwest” highlights the unexpected discovery of Prospero’s intentions of enslaving Caliban and his island. This is further emphasised, in the contrast from the happy and negative tone and diction. Caliban’s…

case. The Tempest was not written as a play that viewers would believe was based off of real life events, the clearest evidence for that being the use of Caliban, who was described as “legged like a man, and his fins like arms!” (Tempest 2.2.34-35), as well as the use of harpies in Act 3, Scene 3. As the readers readily accept the use of Caliban, harpies, and other unrealistic elements in the story, so would they accept an optimistic ending, despite its improbability. In the story of Joseph, the…

The pursuit of discovery inherently exists within human nature as a quest to discover something new or something previously known. These discoveries will often lead to the modification of an individual’s beliefs and values due to the gaining of new knowledge. However, these changes may also affect one’s relationships with others and the broader society because their new beliefs and values may conflict with the rigid norms of society. This complex nature of discovery is explored in Shakespeare’s…

The tempest raged at his bidding. Ariel, Caliban, and a host of apparitions bowed to his command. Miranda, his only daughter, was a puppet in his scheme of redemption. He cast his power on a usurping duke, an esteemed royal advisor, and even the king himself. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, not a single individual remains untouched by Prospero’s magic power. This theme of power not only pervades the original text, but was also on full display in the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s…

Persuasion is the influential action or actions to change an individual or a group’s state of mind or view on a specific subject. Life in England in the 1590’s was changing as the movement called Humanism was emerging and changing the way the people perceive their own life. The spreading change consumed the country and affected the audience of William Shakespeare as his viewers’ morals and views begin to twist and warp as the influence of the movement gulfs their minds under its sea of…