caliban the tempest
Caliban Shakespeare exploits the conventional attributes of the classic “savage man. ... for in the depraved and vicious the body seems to rule rather than the soul, on account of their being corrupt and contrary to nature” (Politics), then the black and disfigured slave must be the natural slave of the European gentlemen, the savage and deformed Caliban of the learned Prospero. Caliban’s origins and character are natural in the sense that they do not partake of grace, civility, and art; he is ugly in body, associated with an evil natural magic, and unqualified for rule or nuture.