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How effectively is Caliban presented through his actions to a modern audience?
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Tom Moore How effectively is Caliban presented through his actions to a modern audience? One of the most crucial characters of the Tempest is the character Caliban; the 'monster-like creature' that inhabits the island at which the play takes place. Caliban lacks civilized influence due to the fact that he was born on the island and deprived of any social activity other than nature and instinct. Caliban is not monstrous simply for the sake of being frightening. Caliban is now looked at more sympathetically to a modern audience. To a Shakespearean audience they could not see past all of this, whether it was to do with lack of action in the way Caliban used to be played of the lack or intelligence of the audience present. His action or his looks are more likely to be the reason where the sympathy leaked through as on the stage during the Shakespearian period...
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