Mowat’s essay emphasizes Caliban’s significant role in The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. Caliban’s character, in relation to Prospero’s, expresses the actual relations between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of settlers and natives, Caliban being the native of the island, and Prospero, the settler. Miranda and Prospero introduce Caliban to the reader as a “villain”, “slave” and even a “tortoise”. Caliban and his mother, Sycorax, a witch, were
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