Unlike Shakespeare's Caliban, Who appreciates the island's natural treasures and its wondrous music, Dryden and Davenant's Caliban is a completely a monster, insensitive to everything. ... His bestiality makes him an oppressor on the island until Prospero comes, who brings light, knowledge and virtue here and tries to educate this ungrateful monster to the civilized. ... In 1818, Hazlitt published The Yellow Dwarf, in which he firstly raised the view that it was Caliban, not Prospero, was the legitimate ruler of the island. ... Sidney Lee, the famous scholar knighted for hi...

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When he is rejected by her, due to his poverty, he reinvents himself and becomes utterly obsessed with the material aspects of life, which he knows she treasures. ... As Nick Carraway narrates, "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors" eyes...a fresh, green breast of the new world. ...

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