HUMAN 1BS Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Polysemy, Tantrum
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The tempest introduces caliban as this rebellious, hideous monster, slave to his master, prospero, and the audience is exposed to a simple archetypal representation of. In this essay, i will analyze caliban"s character in both the tempest and snapshots of caliban to further explain how the readaptation reinforces and contrasts with shakespeare"s original caliban. An apparent difference between shakespeare"s and namjoshi"s portrayals of caliban rests in caliban"s role in each work. Shakespeare places caliban as a minor character, one who has no character development and plays as a parallel and parody to other characters like. Throughout the tempest, the audience understands caliban to be an evil, rebellious monster, tired of his master"s slave work. Kim 2 to grow more as a character apart from his stereotypical role such as caliban"s decision to follow stephano and trinculo, shakespeare deprives caliban"s character and instead makes him a parody of himself.