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Prospero rules the island through magic, Ariel longs for freedom, Caliban is treated like a monster, but perhaps he is more human than anyone. He stopped abruptly. “Excuse me, miss. “
“I talk a lot. “No. “I smiled, a sincere smile for the first time in this strange conversation. “Continue. Tell me about Caliban. “
And an extraordinary event occurred. Josiah, the enormous slave nicknamed the Beast, began to argue with Shakespeare with an intelligence that would have impressed university professors.
He said: Caliban is called the Beast, but Shakespeare shows us that he was a slave, that his island was stolen from him and that he was deprived of his mother’s magic. “
Prospero calls him the Beast, but Prospero came to the island and took everything, including Caliban himself. So who is the real beast? — You look at Caliban with pity. — I see Caliban as a human being.
He was treated inhumanely, but he remains a human being.
He paused. “Like… like slaves. “Yes”, I finally said.