Caliban Static Character

Caliban is the most complex of all the characters in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but he is actually a static character. Caliban lives a low life as a servant for Prospero. The life of a slave. He provides comical relief as he gets steadily drunker throughout the play, but remains devoted to his sole mission throughout the play, to take over the island which he “rightfully owns”. You’d think Caliban was evil, wouldn’t you? In reality, Caliban is the byproduct of his mother’s death and Prospero imprisoning him, and he shouldn’t be viewed as evil, just as someone who was thrown out of his ownership just as Prospero was.
Caliban was driven out of his rightful place as owner of the island by Prospero, Prospero was driven out of his dukedom
Prospero’s situation was the same. Prospero was duke of Milan 12 years before this story takes place, and his brother Antonio dumped him out Milan onto the island he currently inhabits. “My brother, and thy uncle, call’d Antonio-
Meanwhile, a strange man just shows up out of the blue and summons spirits to imprison and beat you, you wouldn’t exactly be a “happy camper”. Betrayal runs deep. If that happened you could say that becoming evil would just be an unfortunate byproduct of an abusive environment. Essentially that is an exact replica of the riveting events Caliban went through. Exact replica. “When thou camest first, thou strokedst me, and madest much of me; wouldst give me water with berries in ‘t; and teach me how to name the bigger light, and the less that burn by day and night: and how then I loved thee, and show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle, the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Cursed that I did so!”-Caliban (I.II.13-14) Caliban learned to trust Prospero, Caliban showed him all of the good berries, places to grow food, and all the fresh water, and in repayment Prospero stabbed him in the back and used him as a slave, turning against good nature was the easiest option for Caliban, the safest one. The only