The Tempest Research Paper

(Caliban not wanting to be a victim of colonization) This quote demonstrates how Prospero is naive to the fact that Caliban has no interest in being assimilated. (p.41, caliban being manipulated) This quote demonstrates how Caliban is naive to the fact that he is freeing himself from one captor, only to be enslaved to another. In sum, Shakespeare portrays Prospero and Caliban as naive figures, to demonstrate that as different as they may seem, they are

(Tempest, 1.2.332-339). Prospero clearly and evidently cared for Prospero, a natural assumption since Prospero and Miranda needed Caliban’s help to survive on the island. Prospero further claims to “have us’d thee … with humane care, and lodg’d thee in my own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child” (Tempest, 1.2.345-348). Essentially, Caliban attempted to rape Miranda, an accusation he does not refute, which caused Prospero to imprison and enslave him as punishment and explains the copious cursing and hatred both sides have towards each

The tone Caliban uses indicates his feeling of betrayal which Prospero’s misuse of a discovery result in. The degradation suffered by Caliban highlights Prospero’s new found power which he uses to create an imperialist society. The influence of Prospero’s magic is oppressive and portrays Prospero as a person who exploits others’ innocence.

Caliban’s emotive language highlights his inferior position compared to Prospero, upon Prospero and Miranda’s arrival, Prospero took care and educated Caliban, in exchange for Caliban showing them the features of the land, including the barren and the fertile areas. This mutual relationship was slowly overtaken by Prospero’s overwhelming desire for power, established as Prospero claims Caliban as a commodity rather than a friend. “What, ho! Slave! Caliban!

Caliban has to do a lot of work, and he gets physical punishments such as cramps, urchins, and bees all brought by Prospero’s magic. (The Tempest

In these lines of the play, it clearly shows the theme of freedom and confinement due to the arrival of Prospero onto the island. On the first line of the quote Prospero refers to Caliban as a “lying slave” he used that word to show that he is

“The Tempest” , Shakespeare's last writing, to most, was just to represent him leaving the writing community but, I feel as though it was really to show colonialism. He uses characters to represent people in the world. As prospero was the colonizer with all the power that people fear or/and respected. While Caliban was just a what we would call a native. This play is similar to the American colonizing the midwest from the Native American.

Described in the character list as "a savage and deformed slave," Caliban is the son of Sycorax, an evil witch who has since died but who once held authority over the island now ruled by Prospero. Regarding him as a "beast" and a "poisonous slave, got by the devil himself' upon Sycorax, Prospero has forced Caliban into slavery (act4 scene1 line140) (act 1scene2 line319). By contrast, Caliban considers himself mistreated and overworked. He bitterly accuses Prospero of befriending him in order to take advantage of his appreciation and rob him of the island which he considers his birth right.

Prospero also enslaves Caliban, originally charming him while convincing Caliban to show them around the island when they were first trapped there, and ultimately threatening him with his magic after certain events take place. Every time Caliban rebelliously mutters threats to Prospero or Miranda, he is threatened with afflictions such as “terrible cramps” that would plague him later in the day. “For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, / Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins / Shall, forth at vast of night that they may work, / All exercise on thee.

Caliban is often referred as a monster and is the son of the witch Sycorax. Prospero called Caliban the son of the devil which means he is worse than the devil itself, Prospero then curses Caliban’s mother calling her a “wicked dam”; meaning she was a villainous witch. Caliban was stripped of his freedom similarly Prospero was stripped of his dukedom their relationship is very complicated; Caliban is very idiotic. Shakespeare hints that Prospero treats Caliban like his subject “For I am the only subject you have, which first was mine own king” Shakespeare is referring to colonialism which was a revolutionary thing happening a lot when the Tempest was writing.

Early in The Tempest we are introduced to a servant of Prospero and Caliban who was born from a witch, Sycorax, and was portrayed as a monster and thus acted as a monster. In the end he was left behind on the island due to his continuous misbehavior. Caliban’s background is full of doing task for his master, Prospero, such as showing him and his daughter the land and collecting his resources for them. Some of Caliban’s chores that he does for Prospero includes collecting firewood, showing him the land, and other physical tasks. His relationship with Prospero was good and healthy until Caliban assaulted his daughter, Miranda. This lead to Prospero treating Caliban as more of a monster, and less of a man, just as everyone else treated him. Caliban later finds two men named Trinculo and Stephano, who both laugh and mock Caliban. Caliban is eager for a new master to he begs them to accept him as a servant. They accept, and formulate a plan to kill Prospero.

In particular, Prospero’s fully straightforward anger is presented on when Caliban is in question (Sokol). Within this epiphany, Prospero has realized that he needs to take responsibility of what Caliban has become. He sees how his own actions have contributed to Caliban’s plot to assassinate him. “ Two of these fellows you must know and own; this thing of darkness I acknowledge mine” (Shakespeare 66). Prospero calls Caliban a “thing of darkness”, but he knows Caliban is only a thing of darkness because of what he has done to Caliban.

Shakespeare explores the theme of humanism in the play, The Tempest, to establish its place in the Renaissance time period. He develops Prospero, one of the play’s major protagonists, as a symbol of human based behaviors. From the opening scenes, the readers learn that Prospero is king, later to be overtaken by his evil brother. Rather than just giving up, he

He claims to have loved Prospero at first and in return, Prospero stole the island from him, Caliban's 'birthright', from him. To Caliban, Prospero is the monster. He came to Caliban's island, his home, and used his magic to take control over it, he enslaved Caliban and forced him to learn to speak. Caliban and Prospero look at the exact same events and yet their view on how things occurred are opposite. These conflicting points of view make the play more convoluted and really add to the magic of the play.

his senses, while Prospero is ruled more by his intellect and self-discipline i.e. his mind. Although we are not given details of Caliban’s birth, it seems likely that a creature as subhuman in appearance as Caliban was not born of a human union. It has been postulated that, to quote Prospero, he was “got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam,” from a union between Sycorax and an incubus (an extremely attractive male apparition with intention to tempt). Caliban was therefore a creature born from passion, the offspring of an unholy pleasure. Prospero was not only of noble birth; he was also born to be ruler of the city-state of Milan. Nobility, in Elizabethan times, carried with it heavy implications: it was expected that Prospero would be intellectually superior, and that he would exercise as great discipline over himself as he was expected to exercise over others, in his role of leadership. From their ancestry, Prospero is more ruled by his intellect, and Caliban by his love of pleasure. Caliban’s original love for Prospero and Miranda, and his later misdemeanour and subsequent hatred for them, illustrate his fundamental reliance on his senses. Caliban loved Prospero and Miranda because they “made much of me”; and his response to this was purely sensual in his recollections: “Thou strok’st me,…wouldst give me/Water with berries in’t.” What Caliban responded to, more than anything else, was the