Shakespeare Create A Discrepancy Between Caliban And The Colonizer

Repetition and meter were singular literary devices used to create a discrepancy between Caliban and the colonizers for the duration of Scene 2. Caliban’s monologue, in lines 1-17, is written in iambic pentameter and contains a sophisticated rhetoric as well as poetic language. Conversely, Trinculo and Stephano’s dialogue throughout the scene is without an organized structure or meter. This distinction leads me to believe that Shakespeare was showing how Caliban, the individual being colonized, was more worldly and undeserving of the savage mask that the colonizers placed over his existence. To conclude the scene, Caliban sings a song that ends with the lyric, “[f]reedom, high-day, high-day freedom, freedom high-day, freedom (line 162).” This
repetition of the word “freedom” emphasizes that Caliban evidently had a goal in mind. Caliban had been a slave to a colonizer for so long that to him, freedom was directly being unclasped from Prospero's control. All of the colonialism on this territory was concentrated on Caliban alone since he was its only remaining native. His mother, Sycorax, was killed by a colonizer. Fancy that!