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\"Caliban\"<\/a>Character:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Caliban<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Source Text:<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0Shakespeare, William. \u201cThe Tempest.\u201d William Shakespeare: Collected Works<\/span>. Ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. London: Wordsworth Editions, 1996. 1135-1159.<\/p>\n

Entry Author:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Alexandra Katechis<\/p>\n

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Caliban of William Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest <\/i>(1610-1611) is the half human and half beast native to the island upon Prospero and his daughter have adopted. This poem strives to emphasize the ambiguity of Caliban\u2019s parentage. The poem also explores the many forms he might appear as (man, beast, animal, devil). The point of view will be first person, so that the speaker can draw the reader into the pain of being reviled and enslaved as a result of physical difference and suspected inferiority. Additionally, this poem attempts to emphasize the struggle between Caliban\u2019s inner humanity and outer bestiality. Caliban\u2019s aggressive voice is evoked in order to fully flesh out this sense of injustice which is so central to his humanness.<\/p>\n

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Caliban<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acerbic article of Algiers, I am the son of Sycorax, antithesis of Ariel, and yet<\/i><\/p>\n

Brother. What family has not forsaken me, banished and abandoned me in basest beastly<\/i><\/p>\n

Condition, which does cull cruelty from civility. When did censure reach such consensus?<\/i><\/p>\n

Duke of Milan, Prospero, doest thou attend me? Thy crippled devil did befriend thee. This<\/i><\/p>\n

Eden I ennobled onto you, you, who conducts the eulogy of my only claim to the<\/i><\/p>\n

Flesh of this Earth. Foiled by my own manhood, which did enflame thy eyes before fruition:<\/i><\/p>\n

Godless, ghastly love for Miranda, o gracious nonpareil, who gave me voice to groan,<\/i><\/p>\n

Howl, hatch into this hostile realm. What hellfire has my humanity bought? Master,<\/i><\/p>\n

Imposter, sinuous ivy of incantation and vile thought, ignominy of my inheritance, my isle.<\/i><\/p>\n

Jealousy betrays this jape of justice, which does lengthen my jailor\u2019s sentence of solitude.<\/i><\/p>\n

King and keeper of my soul, strengthen the knot of thy goddess who does tempt me. Thy<\/i><\/p>\n

Leal servant licks at lust and knows no limit to its loathsome breath which you have lent me:<\/i><\/p>\n

Mooncalf monster, cry out the wicked; only good men mark my root in our maker\u2019s mind. A<\/i><\/p>\n

Naked native truth to which I am nailed, bound nose to navel by a plague of nymphs. The<\/i><\/p>\n

Orphan obeys, instrument of this diabolical orchestra of occult hymns. And so<\/i><\/p>\n

Perdition is my immortality, part served on this pelagic stage, the rest in pandemonium\u2019s pit.<\/i><\/p>\n

Quiet quivers of mine own heart do sometimes feign forgiveness, quintessence of thy fool\u2019s wit.<\/i><\/p>\n

Reason can no longer rebuke the rabid refrain of my repugnance, reborn the same in every<\/i><\/p>\n

Strain of this savage\u2019s story. Spirit, sprite, and simplest man: subject to the sorcerer of quill,<\/i><\/p>\n

Trick and thrill, the madman\u2019s slight of hand. Sing out my threnody, tale of a tyrannical torment.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ugly underworld, ubiquitous cacophony, and my prison, molded from past paradise by the<\/i><\/p>\n

Villain who knows naught else but to rule and part. I am the victim of the minister of fate<\/i><\/p>\n

Whose rapture is my worldly woe, whose rejoice is bitterest curse and weakest foe.<\/i><\/p>\n

Exculpate me, or else scorn this half-worn existence as do all others who drink his poison ink.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s heart can no more be broken. I have no other.<\/i><\/p>\n

Zealotry has no parallel, no pardon.<\/i><\/p>\n

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