![]() ![]() Caliban’s ‘The Isle is Full of Noises’ speech captures the hypnotic enchantment of the island in language that is distinctive and memorable. The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s most enchanting and enchanted plays: a fantasy or ‘romance’ featuring a magician, the ‘monstrous’ offspring of a wicked witch, fairies, a lavish masque, drunken conspirators, young lovers, and much else. He’s clearly naïve and silly for thinking this: if Setebos is no match for Prospero’s magic, one hardly thinks a drunken butler would present much of a threat. Yet when Stephano appears, with wine, Caliban foolishly believes that Stephano could seriously usurp Prospero and take control of the island. ![]() ![]() However, when Caliban proved himself irresponsible and a threat to Miranda, Prospero confined Caliban to one part of the island. The offspring of the witch Sycorax, Caliban was formerly treated generously by Prospero, who arrived on Caliban’s island twelve years earlier, teaching him to speak Prospero’s own language and even giving Caliban wine to drink. Caliban is a childlike and in many ways childish native of the enchanted island where Prospero lives with his daughter, Miranda. ![]()
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