Caliban+Taliban


 * Caliban Taliban Caravan **

John the Baptist's head brought in on a platter Salome

After his island becomes occupied by [|Prospero] and his daughter Miranda, Caliban is forced into servitude. While he is referred to as a [|calvaluna or mooncalf], a freckled monster, he is the only human inhabitant of the island that is otherwise "not honour'd with a human shape" (Prospero, I.2.283). In some traditions he is depicted as: a wild man, or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a mix of fish and man. Caliban is a [|Cambion], the half-human son of [|Sycorax] by (according to Prospero, though this is not confirmed) a [|devil]. Banished from [|Algiers], Sycorax was left on the isle, pregnant with Caliban, and died before Prospero's arrival. Caliban, despite his inhuman nature, clearly loved and worshipped his mother, and refers to [|Setebos] as his mother's god. Prospero explains his harsh treatment of Caliban by claiming that after initially befriending him, Caliban attempted to [|rape] [|Miranda]. Caliban confirms this gleefully, saying that if he had not been stopped he would have peopled the island with a race of Calibans—"Thou didst prevent me, I had peopled else this isle with Calibans" (Act I:ii). Prospero then entraps Caliban and torments him with harmful magic if Caliban does not obey his orders. Resentful of Prospero, Caliban takes [|Stephano], one of the shipwrecked servants, as a god and as his new master. Caliban learns that Stephano is neither a god nor Prospero's equal in the conclusion of the play, however, and Caliban agrees to obey Prospero again.
 * Caliban ** (  [|/ˈkælᵻbæn/]  [|//**kal**-ə-ban//] ) is one of the main [|antagonists] in [|William Shakespeare] 's play //  [|The Tempest]  // . He is the subhuman son of the malevolent witch [|Sycorax].

Despite this portrayal, Caliban also has moments in which he delivers memorable speeches, such as in Act 3, Scene 2:

> Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, > > Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.(not hurt) > > Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments > > Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices > > That, if I then had waked after long sleep, > > Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, > > The clouds methought would open, and show riches > > Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked > > I cried to dream again. > > == Other works [ [|edit]  ]  ==  [|Fyodor Paramonov] as Caliban in// [|The Tempest] //, [|Maly Theatre (Moscow)], 1905 In the 1956 science fiction film // [|Forbidden Planet] //, Caliban is re-imagined as "the Monster from the [|Id] ", a wild and violent monster that is invisible to the naked eye. The monster later turns out to be born of the subconscious of the film's Prospero character, Dr. Morbius, using the advanced technology of the Krell. Like Caliban, the monster ultimately rebels and attempts to kill its master. Captain Adams confronts Dr. Morbius with the fact that he is giving form to his subconscious, and his guilty conscience, from having brought it into existence, finally ends the monster's destructive rampage.