 The Tempest is Shakespeare’s last famous play  This story belongs to the group of comedies called romances. These talk about love, adventure and they have always a good end.  The play is placed in a island(Carribean)  It talks about the nature of power in social and human relationships  The play is a metaphor of colonialism

 The king of Naples, Alonso, is shipwrecked on an island with his court  In the island live only spirits and they are under Prospero’s control  Prospero is a magician and he has a daughter(Miranda)and two spirits(Ariel and Caliban)  Prospero wants to take a revenge to Alonso because he and Prospero’s brother(Antonio) stole the duke of Milan  Prospero took Alonso’s son(Ferdinand)  Ferdinand fell in love with Miranda  Alonso and Prospero make peace

 William Shakespeare's The Tempest introduces the reader to the Caliban. "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, thou strok'st me and made much of me…"  -This passage shows the manipulation of Prospero onto Caliban.

 -At first, Prospero views Caliban as someone inferior and savage. Because of this, Prospero teaches Caliban to live the colonial life. " teach me now/ To name the bigger light and how the less/That burn by day and night"  Prospero gave him sweet drinks and taught him the names of the sun and the moon and showed him all the qualities of the island.  After Caliban, who once was a king of the island, feels like a slave.  Miranda speaks with Prospero and they despise Caliban  Miranda says «being capable of all ill!»

 According to Caliban, the island should be his, because he would have inherited it from his mother Sycorax.  Prospero made Caliban his slave, who once was the king of the island.  For Prospero, Caliban is «the most lying slave», instead for Miranda is an «abhorrèd slave»  The passage repeats that Caliban is inabilited to be taught