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Bertha also does not fulfill the ideal appearances to fit into society. Bertha is somewhat beastly in her looks. When bertha is described her entire being based on appearance is confused, "What it was, whether beast of human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it groveled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing; and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face" (250). Bertha is not even given a gender; she is referred to as 'it'. Bertha's appearances also make it difficult for the others to decipher whether she is human or not, due to her wild features. The only assets that help anyone recognize the possibility of Bertha being human are the clothes on her body and her wild hair. .
Caliban is also unrecognizable as a man or beast. In William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, Caliban is a native to the island where the play takes place. Caliban does not fit society's image of man. His appearances make another character, Trinculo, who stumbles upon him in a cave, question his entire being saying, .
"What have we here, a man or a fish? Dead or Alive? A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not-of-the-newest Poor John (salted fish, type of poor fare). A strange fish! Were I in England now, as I once was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a manLegged like a man, and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt" (2.2.46).
Trinculo is kind of going through his thoughts aloud of whether Caliban is a man or if he is a fish. He says that Caliban smells like a very old and rotting fish that not even a drunk man would buy in the market for any small amount of money.
