In The Tempest, Shakespeare makes use of the contradictory worlds of illusion and reality. ... An example of this is the case of Caliban with the drunken servants of Alonso, Stephano and Trinculo. ... While Caliban believes the two men to be gods, Stephano perceive Prospero to be simply a man, who can be overcome by deception. ... Instead of killing them, he returns Stephano and Trinculo to their masters and forgives his own servant Caliban. ... In this scene the characters are initially placed in a trance as they listen to a speech of Prospero, judging them on their actions. ...

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This is the sort of language power Prospero used to manipulate the people and fairies on the island in William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. In the play, The Tempest, Prospero is the main character, who was exiled from his city-state of Milan with his daughter because he neglected his job as Duke and focused on black magic. ... Caliban did not just want his freedom, but also to kill Prospero with the help of Stephano and Trinculo, in numerous ways like to "Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his wesand with thy knife."" ... Whether people use their speech for ...

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Caliban, the original monster and barbarian in The Tempest, has been far removed in both time and interpretations from the original one Shakespeare created four hundred years ago. ... However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... New editions of The Tempest created a different atmosphere for reading it as a paradigm of exploitation by taking Caliban as a more a less "noble" slave. Interpreting Prospero's book as the symbols of a literate technology with which the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate