And then I loved thee, and show'd thee all the qualities of the isle - the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou takest from me! When thou camest first, thou strokedst me and made much of me, wouldst give me water with berries in't, and teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night. Thou shalt be pinch'd as thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging than bees that made 'em. Urchins shall, for that vast of night that they may work, all exercise on thee. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam!Ĭaliban rises from the floor on which he had been lying.Īs wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye and blister you all o'er!įor this, be sure tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. What, ho! Slave! Caliban! Thou earth, thou! Speak.Ĭome forth, I say! There's other business for thee. They rise from the bench and walk slowly forward. He does make our fire, fetch in our wood, and serves in offices that profit us. 'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on.īut as 'tis, we cannot miss him. We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never yields us kind answer. The strangeness of your story put heaviness in me. Onscreen text reads 'Shakespeare Unbound - The Tempest 1.2 - Bell Shakespeare for ABC Splash'.Īwake, dear heart, awake! Thou hast slept well.
Text © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).Īctors and crew prepare to shoot a scene. All images copyright their respective owners. Video © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). Digital content © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). Why do you think colonised peoples might have such a conflicted relationship with the language of their colonisers?ĭiscover programs, workshops and more performances at one of Australia's great theatre companies.ĭownload a PDF with the full synopsis for each play.įull plot summaries of Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, and Romeo and Juliet.Ĭreated by ABC Splash in collaboration with Bell Shakespeare. What is the basis of Caliban's anger? How does Prospero maintain power over him? Why is Prospero outraged at Caliban's resentment of him? What does this suggest about Prospero's perception of his relationship to Caliban? Explain whether you see Caliban as a villain or a victim.Ĭaliban curses Prospero for teaching him his language but acknowledges its 'profit' is that, in fact, he has the words to curse Prospero. Why does Caliban eventually submit to Prospero's bidding? What is Caliban's role in Prospero's household? What words does Prospero use when describing Caliban? What does Prospero do to Caliban when he retaliates? According to Caliban, what happened when Prospero first arrived on the island? What is Prospero's version of these events? Note the details of each story carefully.'The Tempest' can be viewed through the lens of postcolonialism because, in part, it tells the story of an outsider, Prospero, who arrives on a remote island, befriends two inhabitants, and then manipulates and enslaves them. In literary studies, postcolonialism is a philosophy that analyses texts in terms of how they represent the relationship between colonising cultures and those they have colonised.In this scene from Act 1.2 of 'The Tempest', with Miranda Tapsell, John Bell and Damien Strouthos of Bell Shakespeare, Caliban's impassioned speech reveals his ill-treatment at the hands of Prospero.Īs you watch, consider whether you feel Caliban is a villain or a victim. However, he is not without a sympathetic side.
Half human and the son of a witch, Caliban attacks Prospero's daughter Miranda. Caliban is one of Shakespeare's most fascinating characters.
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