How Does Shakespeare Present Caliban

In the poems and Shakespeare's play, they all portray Caliban as a character who desires human connection. 1) Caliban does not have any family and wishes he had his mother to be by his side. According to the play, Caliban tells Prospero, “This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak’st from me” (524). He wants his mother back because as soon as Prospero got to the island, he took control and made the beast his slave, but Caliban believes the island is his inheritance since his mother was there before Prospero. Without her back, there is nothing much he can do. Just as in Bear’s poem, Caliban talks about how before he was filled with hatred, he remembers how much he misses the way his mother’s music would bring joy him. 2) Another similarity is that

Caliban sees Miranda to be so beautiful that he finds her to more alluring than his own mother. Correspondingly Caliban once again mentions Miranda’s charm in the poem with her “ feather-soft hands, the way she’ll smile up at her dresser mirror” (607). And goes on at questioning himself, “How could he be the man in love with such a woman? ‘¿ Por que no?’ ” (607). He loves Miranda but just like a human he fears the rejection he might get from Miranda because of what he had tried to do. 3)Caliban is someone who wants a legacy and seeks to do it in the form of offspring. When he has his first appearance in the play, Prospero claims to Caliban that “In mine own cell till thou didst seek to violate The honor of my child” and Caliban replies by saying “Would’t had been done! Thou didst prevent me!” What Prospero and Caliban were discussing basically meant that he attempted to rape Miranda but Prospero kept him from carrying on. Caliban wanted to populate the island and wanted Miranda to be the mother of his little creatures As well as in Bears’s poem, Caliban wants kids to pass down his mother’s