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character sketch of Caliban in The Tempest in 1500 words​

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In “The Tempest”, William Shakespeare draws the character of Caliban with dubious shades. Critics down the ages have responded differently to the portrayal of Caliban. While some have downright dismissed him as a lowly savage, others (especially the post colonial critics) have focused on Caliban as the subjugated victim of colonial domination. Nonetheless, the portrayal of Caliban has interesting shades which have baffled and interested Shakespearean critics and audience. “The character of Caliban,” as Hazlitt has put it, “is generally thought (and justly so) to be one of the author’s masterpieces.” Caliban has been wonderfully conceived as the embodiment of all that is gross and earthy – ‘a sort of creature of the earth, as Ariel is a sort of creature of the air’ (Coleridge). Indeed, the complexity of the character is reflected in the large volume of critical discussion that has grown around it. Morton Luce is of the opinion that “Caliban is not one but three. The monster, the slave, the aboriginal Indian – these are the three parts played by this triple character, who thus with a doubtful consistency fulfills the poet’s three-fold purpose and serves as embodiment of the supernatural, the social and political topics of the day”. According to Prof. Wilson, “Caliban is Shakespeare’s portrait of the missing link” (in Darwin’s theory of evolution) – a sort of “pre-Darwinian realization of the intermediate link between brute and man.” It seems that Shakespeare having exhausted the world for purposes of characterization imagined a new order of character in this ‘hag-seed.’

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