11.1.3
Caliban - Quotes
Key Quotations - Caliban
Key Quotations - Caliban
Here are three key quotations that highlight aspects of Caliban's character:
'You taught me language,'
'You taught me language,'
- 'You taught me language, and my profit on 't / Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you / For learning me your language!'
- Caliban resents the language Prospero taught him because it is part of how he has been oppressed and colonised by him.
'Beat him enough'
'Beat him enough'
- 'Beat him enough. After a little time / I'll beat him too.'
- Caliban shows no mercy because he has been treated poorly and does not have the ability to forgive in the way that Prospero does.
'I say by sorcery he got this isle;'
'I say by sorcery he got this isle;'
- 'I say by sorcery he got this isle; / From me he got it. If thy greatness will, / Revenge it on him, for I know thou dar'st, / But this thing dare not.'
- Caliban thinks that Prospero got the island illegally and illegitimately, and he wants to get revenge.
1Key Words
2Context & Overview
2.1Context & Overview
3Act 1
3.1Act 1 Analysis
4Act 2
4.1Act 2 Analysis
5Act 3
5.1Act 3 Analysis
6Act 4
6.1Act 4 Analysis
7Act 5
7.1Act 5 Analysis
8Key Characters
8.1Major Characters
8.2Minor Characters
9Themes
10Authorial Method
10.1Authorial Method
11Recap: Main Quotes
11.1Characters Quotes
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4Act 2
4.1Act 2 Analysis
5Act 3
5.1Act 3 Analysis
6Act 4
6.1Act 4 Analysis
7Act 5
7.1Act 5 Analysis
8Key Characters
8.1Major Characters
8.2Minor Characters
9Themes
10Authorial Method
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