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prospero and caliban

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Caliban showed him friendship, and in return Prospero educated Caliban. But Caliban eventually came to realize that Prospero would never view him as more than an educated savage.

“Thou strok’st me and made much of me”

2
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caliban’s feelings

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Though capable of sensitivity and eloquence, Caliban mainly shows a bitter and angry side of his character

3
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cannibal

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Caliban’s name is a near anagram for the world “cannibal,”

4
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language

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“You taught me language, and my profit on’t

Is, I know how to curse.”

5
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bedfellows

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“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

6
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isles of noises

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“a thousand twangling instruments”

“The clouds methought would open, and show riches”

Caliban’s language and demeanor are gentle and lyrical, expressing a heartfelt love for the island. The speech makes it difficult to see Caliban as a brutal savage, and emphasizes the depth of his human desire for freedom and autonomy.

7
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darkness

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“thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine”

It’s unclear whether Prospero’s comment about Caliban suggests that he sees him as his property, or that he takes some responsibility for what has happened to Caliban.

8
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Prospero and Miranda call him

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“poisonous slave,” “monster”, “A thing most brutish”

Prospero first befriended Caliban, educated him, and then enslaved him is similar to methods of European explorers

” “human care”

9
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savage

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“savage”

comes from the French word ‘sauvage’ meaning wild - Caliban is “the epitome of all things natural” - Joanna Williams

10
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torture

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Caliban describes in vivid language the various torments Prospero uses to subdue and punish him. These examples supply motivation for the murder plot Caliban will devise in the next act.

“bite me”

“pricks at my footfall”

“wound with adders”

11
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Caliban and S+T

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Trinculo’s instinct to capture and sell the “strange fish” reflects the desire common among Europeans in Shakespeare’s time to exploit the people living in lands visited by European explorers and colonized by European nations.

12
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violence towards Prospero

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“batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his wezand with they knife”

planned to murder Prospero

13
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Prospero’s attitude to slavery

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Prospero’s remark about Caliban that certain races are naturally indecent and inferior. This rationale was a common justification for colonization and slavery.

“a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick”

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Caliban’s naivete

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it’s hard not to pity Caliban’s ignorant naiveté when he curses himself for worshipping Stephano

“What a thrice-double ass was I to take this drunkard for a god and worship this dull fool!”

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Concept of ‘the other’

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process by which society excludes ‘others’ whom they want to subordinate or who do not fit into their society

16
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the concept of ‘otherness’

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people construct roles for themselves in relation to an ‘other’

17
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his comedic

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relief helps audiences accept his attempted rape of Miranda

18
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The Gregory Doran 2016-7

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production depicted Caliban with a twisted spine, yet when he is relegated to his lone island, he finally stands up straight

19
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contrast to Ariel

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who is a “fine apparition”, Caliban is “hag-seed”

20
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Freud

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Caliban seems very id driven

seen by his attempted rape of Miranda

21
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caliban needs to be controlled

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“thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child”

“peopled the isle with Calibans” - an immoral and animalistic response

22
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montaigne’s essay

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describes the “savages” as “unfettered” and “unadorned”

23
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Caliban is perceived

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as a “swarthy and base monster, he is poetic in his own way” - Anne Barton

24
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poetic language

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“cloven tongues” and “kiss me to sleep”

oddly sensitive

25
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due to Prospero’s imperialism

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Caliban represents the conquered voice, disillusioned by fake promises

26
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Prospero: “then, I loved thee”

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shows that Caliban is a response of imperial dominance

27
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theatrical device

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Caliban’s appearance and presentation

brutal, unrefined and savage

28
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animalistic qualities

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“moon calf” and “strange fish”

29
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a monster

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“got by the devil himself”

30
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casting list

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he is described as a “deformed slave”

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‘Cauliban’

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a Romany word for black or something associated with darkness

contrasts Miranda’s name, which Shakespeare created from the latin ‘Mirandus’ meaning admirable or wonderful

32
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Caliban is

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“demoralised, detribalised and dispossessed” - Miller

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innocence

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“Caliban is not innocent” - Nuttal

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“I am

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subject to a tyrant” “cheated me of the isle”

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his “gaberdine”

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was a loose cloak of coarse material, which would have contrasted the finery of the courtier’s clothes

David Lindley - “an outsider garment”

36
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service to prospero

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A.D. Nuttall - suggests that Caliban expects to be retained in service and leave the island with his master

37
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Caliban and King of Tunis parallel

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Miranda was able to resist Caliban and her father punishes Caliban, however, Claribel is forced into the “black embrace” - Richard Jacobs

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natural man

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“Caliban represents the primitive and unrestrained appetite, untouched by civilised notions of self-control” - ‘I must eat my dinner’ - Joanna Williams

39
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with S+T

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is he a murderous savage, excited to kill Prospero or is he a man driven to murder by the colonisation of his home

40
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his appearance is important

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as the Jacobean dislike of Caliban partly come from the fact that he was non-white, non-anglo Saxon and not a protestant

41
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as his character begins to unfold

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the audience realises that there is much more than an unattractive exterior

42
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the Beerbohm Tree production 1904

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Caliban sees off the departing ship, appearing lonely and miserable