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This 3 page paper considers the way in which Caliban is treated by Prospero, and whether that treatment is justified. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a tiny kingdom consisting of himself and his beautiful daughter Miranda, plus his servants: Ariel and Caliban. This paper considers the way in which Caliban is treated by Prospero,
and whether that treatment is justified. Discussion Like the witches in "Macbeth" or the fairies in "Midsummer Nights Dream," Caliban (along with Ariel) belongs to a different reality than
the other characters in the play. He is the only "native" islander in the work: he was on the island before Prospero arrived, and believes, perhaps with some
justification, that Prospero stole it from him: "This islands mine by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou takst from me" (Act I, scene II, 331). The major complaint
against Caliban is that he tries to rape Miranda, an attack we dont see but which Prospero describes the very first time Caliban appears on stage: ""I ... lodged
thee / In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate / The honor of my child" (I, II, 346-348). To which Caliban replies that if Prospero hadnt
stopped him, hed have "peopled else / This isle with Calibans" (I, II, 350). He also joins with Trinculo and Stephano in a plot to kill Prospero-surely one of
the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from him. In Calibans mind,
he is justified; but there is no justification for the attempted rape. It has been argued that Prospero shows kindness to Caliban by not killing him or driving him
away, and while there may be some truth to that, its also true that Caliban is a complete savage with no idea of how to behave. Becoming angry with him
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