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Caliban
Title: Caliban
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 235 | Pages: 1.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Caliban
Caliban
Through Prospero's verbal and physical abuse, the enslaved Caliban is unjustly portrayed as a vicious and subhuman beast. Prospero has no feelings for Caliban. Therefore he thinks that Caliban was put on earth for work. Additionally Prospero just thinks he makes fires and does work for him so people should not have sympathy for him. ' We cannot miss him. He does make our fire, Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices That profit …showed first 75 words of 235 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 235 total…by saying rude things like, 'Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!' (35) Prospero is scolding him saying he is evil. Prospero then goes on to call him, 'Thou most lying slave,' (37) because he accuses him of raping Miranda, Prospero's daughter. He then orders Caliban to get fire wood. He doesn't understand that Caliban has feelings. In conclusion, Prospero is depicting Caliban as a subhuman beast, someone he isn't.
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