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Discuss the significance of Caliban in The Tempest Of all the characters in Shakespeare's plays, few have been as rigorously and variously interpreted as the monster 'Caliban' from his final play 'The Tempest'. Caliban has been seen as an envoy both for and against colonisation, an avatar of Caribbean culture, a cruel heartless monster or a misunderstood and punished soul. Shakespeare's intentions when writing Caliban were most likely to simply portray him as a form of devil. Caliban is held in binary opposition to Arial which leads to him being associated with both the lesser elements, primarily earth, and with Cain the son of Adam in the book of Genesis who murdered his brother and was cursed by God the wander the earth. Caliban's monstrous form is emphasised by the fact that he is rarely referred to by name but instead simply called 'Monster'. Caliban's stupidity and lack of sophistication are clearly...

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