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Shakespeare present the relationship between Prospero and Caliban as one that has changed over time.

at
first they had a long and close relationship but after Caliban’s attack on Miranda, it became more toxic,
with Prospero becoming Caliban’s master.
I’ll show thee the best springs. I’ll pluck thee berries.
I’ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.
ADD TECHNIQUE. Caliban curses Prospero and pledges his allegiance to Stephano. Caliban’s evident
gullibility lends this scene a deep sense of irony. When he mistakes the two bumbling clowns, Stephano
and Trinculo, for gods, Caliban effectively repeats the mistake he originally made with Prospero. Just as
Caliban offered to show Prospero around the island when he first arrived, he now makes the same offer to
these strangers. And just as he ended up Prospero’s slave, it seems obvious that Caliban will receive
equally cruel treatment under the rule of Stephano, who insists on Caliban being a hideous monster. The
authors overall message was that Prospero’s and Caliban’s relationship The relationship between Caliban
and Prospero is quite peculiar in The Tempest. There is mutual animosity neither seems to feel kindly
toward the other—but there is also mutual dependence. Prospero depends upon Caliban's labor and
Caliban depends upon Prospero's wisdom and power

Shakespeare presents the relationship between Trinculo and Stefano as totally unsympathetic
characters; they are callous, opportunistic, and self-serving. Caliban enters a servant/master
relationship with these two, echoing his relationship with Prospero. the humor comes more from
what they do than what they say which means losing their sense of reality.
the evidence that shows this is
. ‘Come on, open your mouth. This ‘ill help you talk. Open up. This ‘ill stop you from
trembling-I can tell you that for sure. You don’t even know who your friends are.
The text uses the word “trembling” to emphasize that Stefano is letting Caliban know to stop
shaking or quivering by drinking. A connotation of the word “trembling” could be “shudder”
meaning to stop vibrating. when Stephano and Trinculo first meet Caliban, they don't know what
to make of Caliban, and after Stephano gives Caliban alcohol, Caliban comically wants to
worship this foolish and venal servant as a God. This leaves the reader with a overall impression
that Stephano and Trinculo, are a butler and a jester. They provide a comic foil to the
other and concluding that Stephano and Trinculo are losing their sense of reality. because they
experience or believe things that aren't real. It changes the way they think, act, feel, or sense
things.

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