Caliban

anything to get it. Prospero, the antagonist, goes as far as to control the other characters, not only through magic, but also through his manipulation and persuasion over them, forcing the others to do things at his will. Characters like Ariel, Caliban, and even Ferdinand follow Prospero’s instructions because he is seen as the dominant power structure. Through forced labor and the use of slavery, Prospero’s control is able to increase and become stronger, however, because…

extreme. The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, features this concept by its use of morally ambiguous characters, allowing the audience to interpret themselves where each character belongs on the moral scale. Through the gradual characterization of Caliban, the island’s grotesque native, Shakespeare defines humanity by exploring if the fine line between man and monster exists more like a blurred middle ground. When describing Caliban’s appearance, Shakespeare distinguishes it from the others by…

Stephano sees Caliban as a monster and asks himself, “where the devil should he learn our language (II. ii. 68).” This line reveals how Stephano does not see Caliban as a human but as a monster. This suggestion is not only backed by my way of thought but Stephano himself articulates how if he can recover Caliban and keep him tame, Stephano can make a profit out of him which is another form of slavery. Stephano not only wants to tame Caliban but he wants to take him as a prisoner…

Caliban and Frankenstein’s Creature are both considered to be monsters due to their physically abhorring appearance. Caliban is said to be “A strange fish.” and the Creature is called a “…vile insect.” by his creator, as well as a “Devil” on multiple occasions. These descriptions imply that these characters are less than human, which introduces the concept of the “other.” Otherness is an idea that is used to analyse the way in which majority and minority groups are constructed, a person or…

people on an island. With the help of his servant Ariel, he is able to perform magic, making sure no one on the boat was harmed. Prospero also has another servant (more like a slave), Caliban, who he treats maliciously. Caliban knew the island very well and after Prospero got all the island 's secrets from him, he sent Caliban out of his care, to a rock where he was fed scraps and worked hard to serve Prospero. All of these characters contain power of different levels and it is often discussed,…

n t h i s p a s s a g e f r o m T h e T e m p e s t , P r o s p e r o e m i t s a t i r a d e , d i r e c t e d a t C a l i b a n , i n w h i c h h e justifies Caliban’s enslavement through perceived inherent moral inequality. Prospero addresses Caliban as an “abhorrèd slave ... capable of all ill,” as a “savage” that “wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish,” and as one of “vile race” (1.2.351­353, 355, 356­357, 358). Prospero’s first line conveys emotions of anger and disgust, undoubtedly at…

Moral ambiguity, a phrase often used to describe the character of Caliban from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, meaning that he is neither good nor bad when it comes to ethical decision making. This essay aims to show that Calibans’ moral ambiguity may be a result of Shakespeare using him as a representative of the injured party of colonialism, indicating that he is a victim of the era and does not fully comprehend the western clarification of moral decision making. The Renaissance began with…

his traveling to this new island, Prospero saw an opportunity in the real condition of an inhabited island and his loss of dukedom in Milan. Prospero establishes a relationship to this real condition before him, creating subject roles in Ariel and Caliban in order to serve the purposes of his real condition. In Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” he describes that an ideology is the imaginary relationship to a real condition (Althusser 695), and such is Prospero’s island.…

“monster” of the story, Caliban, is the only native to the island on which the story takes place. Since he is lone native, he is not accustomed to interacting with humans, and therefore, his behavior appears to be animal-like; this is why the manner in which a person conducts him/herself is based off of learned behavior, rather than a natural sense of what is considered morally right and what is considered morally wrong. When Caliban and Prospero meet for the first time, Caliban does not know…

characters include Caliban Prospero’s slave betrays Prospero and plots to overtake him. Ferdinand Alonso’s son as he falls in love with Miranda Prospero’s daughter works for Prospero in order to prove his love for Miranda. Alonso the King of Naples gets shipwrecked to the island by Prospero and realizes what he does to Prospero in the past. Prospero desires power over these three characters because he wants them to know how powerful he is and respect him. Prospero’s desire for power over Caliban…