Question

Caliban s reaction to triculo ans stephano

Answer 1

Caliban enters with a load of wood, and thunder sounds in the background. Caliban curses and describes the torments thatProspero’s spirits subject him to: they pinch, bite, andprick him, especially when hecurses. As he is thinking of these spirits, Caliban sees Trinculo and imagines him to be one of the spirits. Hoping to avoid pinching, he lies down and covers himself with his cloak. Trinculo hears the thunder and looks about for some cover from the storm. The only thing he sees is the cloak-covered Caliban on the ground. He is not so much repulsed by Caliban as curious. He cannot decide whether Caliban is a “man or a fish” . He thinks of a time when he traveled to England and witnessed bad -shows there. Caliban, he thinks, would bring him a lot of money in England. Thunder sounds again and Trinculo decides that the best shelter in sight is beneath Caliban’s cloak, and so he joins the man-monster there.