Act 2 Sc. 2

Question 1

[Enter Caliban, with a burden of wood]

Answer 1

AO1/2: Burden - this is a punishment, an affliction or torture - reinforces Caliban’s native connection to nature which makes his torture far worse because he is now complicit in the destruction and exploitation of the isle’s natural resources for colonial gain.
- Prospero is constantly corrupting the natural world around him, true extent of his evil is underpinned by his perversion of the natural isle as tools for abuse rather than harmony

Question 2

‘all the infections that the sun sucks up…on Prospero fall’

Question 3

‘he shall taste of my bottle’
&
‘brave god…bears celestial liquor, I will bow to him’

Answer 3

A01/2: Caliban as the naïve native - infantilised - dependent upon liquor, highlighting pervasive & destructive nature of colonisation. Metaphor for poisonous implications of colonialism - introduce these ideas to natives.
- ‘god…celestial’ - god, deity based lang. = reliance of the natives on colonisers
AO3: Montaigne’s of the cannibals challenged common renaissance ideas of the ‘savage’ who needed to be morally reformed by colonial saviours
religious imagery reflects jac. beliefs that whites were morally superior.

Question 4

‘I’ll show thee every fertile inch of this land’

Answer 4

• obedience, cyclical nature of colonialism as the native in order to preserve himself and escape abuse seeks to become loyal.
  AO5 - highly patterned play - ironic bc Caliban wishes to escape the control and domination of P but merely replaces him with Stephano

Question 5

‘with my long nails I will dig thee pignuts’

Answer 5

AO1/2: ‘long nails’ - physical adaptation to the isle, links Caliban exclusively to the Earth and hard labour.