: a savage and deformed slave in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Examples of Caliban in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebYet Fitzgerald identifies a contradiction: Prospero will inform, Ariel will entertain, but Caliban is to be educated—two active figures and one passive.—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
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