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| Character | Caliban | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Lamenting, Complaining, Frustrated, Afraid, Talking to the audience | |
| Type | Serio-comic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Drama, Comedy | |
| Description | Caliban curses Prospero | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 2 | |
Summary
The play starts with a storm hitting a ship that carries the King of Naples, Alonso, his son Ferdinand, Alonso's brother Sebastian, Antonio the Duke of Milan and two servants, Trinculo and Stefano. In the second scene we find Miranda with her father Prospero on the shore of an island close to the shipwreck. Miranda asks her father to help the people on the ship. After Prospero confesses that he is actually responsible for the shipwreck (using his magic powers), he tells her the story of his and her past, of how they got to the island. He used to be the Duke of Milan until his brother Antonio, with the help of the King of Naples, usurped his position and he was forced to flee to the island with his daughter.
We are then introduced to two servants of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Ariel is a spirit servant who carries out Prospero's magic. We learn that he was actually the one that made the ship sink in the beginning of the play. The other servant is Caliban, the son of the witch that rules the island before Prospero's arrival. Caliban is always cursing Prospero and Miranda for the way they treat him. Prospero sends Caliban to get firewood.
In this scene we Caliban enters with firewood in his hands. There is noise of thunder on the background. In the monologue Caliban curses Prospero for how he mistreats him and punishes him. He says Prospero uses spirits that pinch and bite him every time that he curses. Trinculo then enters the scene and Caliban think he is one of the spirits Prospero sent to punish him. He lies down and covers himself with a cloak.
We are then introduced to two servants of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Ariel is a spirit servant who carries out Prospero's magic. We learn that he was actually the one that made the ship sink in the beginning of the play. The other servant is Caliban, the son of the witch that rules the island before Prospero's arrival. Caliban is always cursing Prospero and Miranda for the way they treat him. Prospero sends Caliban to get firewood.
In this scene we Caliban enters with firewood in his hands. There is noise of thunder on the background. In the monologue Caliban curses Prospero for how he mistreats him and punishes him. He says Prospero uses spirits that pinch and bite him every time that he curses. Trinculo then enters the scene and Caliban think he is one of the spirits Prospero sent to punish him. He lies down and covers himself with a cloak.
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| CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire, Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but For every trifle are they set upon me; Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness. [Enter TRINCULO] Lo, now, lo! Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me. |
