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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a brutish or brutalized man


(ˈkæl əˌbæn)

the ugly, beastlike slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611).
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Si nos detenemos en el punto de partida de Caliban, la primera interrogacion que surge es, desde luego: ?
Strikingly, however, at the same time that Caliban is working to construct models of other minds, he seems to be having trouble nailing down the conceptual forms proper to his own consciousness.
As for Caliban (also right), I wanted to free his hands up, so he could live on his hands and feet like a dog.
By means of this change and others, Lepage transformed Shakespeare's Caliban and Prospero," Whitt said.
A concurrent plot has Caliban treacherously conspiring with the royal party's drunken butler (Alfred Molina) and the cowardly tailor (Russel Brand) to kill Prospera and take Miranda for themselves.
Ese "otro" que alude al "monstruo" y al que Marti le conoce "las entranas" y su "apetito gigantesco," son los Estados Unidos, mascara de un Caliban al que no nombra.
Caliban finds happiness in Naples as the years pass and he develops a close bond with Miranda's daughter Chiara.