Caliban

Caliban is one of the primary antagonists in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. While he is referred to as a calvaluna/mooncalf, a freckled monster, he is the only human inhabitant of an 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, stemming from the confusion of two of the characters about... more
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