The Tempest - By the end of Act 3 Caliban has emerged both positively and negatively. Discuss…

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AS English Literature Assignment 1.

The Tempest.

By the end of Act 3 Caliban has emerged both positively and negatively. Discuss...

The monster offspring of the deceased 'foul witch Sycorax', Caliban is a would-be rapist, thief and killer. Yet it's impossible not to like him. Maybe this is because it's easy to see a part of yourself in him: who wouldn't rather lie around in the sun than haul firewood and monotonous chores of its like? It is interesting to see that Shakespeare has created such a monstrous character in Caliban who lacks basic morals and represents most things negative and yet the audience are able to identify with him.

Caliban is the only real native of the island to appear in the play. In his first speech to Prospero, Caliban insists that Prospero stole the island from him. Through his speech, Caliban suggests that his situation is much the same as Prospero's, whose brother usurped his dukedom. Prospero represents himself as being a victim of injustice working to right the wrongs that have been done to him however, his ideas of justice and injustice is somewhat hypocritical- for example, though he is furious with his