this is my year 10 English shakespeare research assignment made by ethan phillips

1. English research
assignment
Character researched:
CaIiban
Play: The Tempest
ETHAN PHILLIPS

2. WHO IS CALIBAN?
Caliban is one of the
lead antagonists in
the play, The Tempest
This play is a
romance, influenced
by a tragicomedy (A

3. Plot synopsis
Alonso, the king of Naples, is returning from his
daughter’s wedding in tunis. he is accompanied by
his son, Ferdinand, his brother, Sebastain, and
Antonio, the Duke of Milan. An old Milanese
courtier, Gonzalo, is also on board. The ship is
wrecked in a storm and all the passengers and
crew are thrown into the furious sea.
Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, and his fifteen
year-old daughter, Miranda, are watching the
shipwreck from an island. He tells her, for
the first time, how they came to be on the island.
Twelve years before, when he had been Duke of
Milan, his brother Antonio, had usurped him, but
with gonzalo’s help he had escaped in a small boat
with his baby daughter, Miranda, and his library of
books about magic. They had ended up on the island
and Prospero had turned the only inhabitant,
Caliban, a deformed and savage creature, into his

4. WHEN AND WHERE??
– The play seems to be set on a
Caribbean on a Mediterranean island
and was set around the year of 1609

5. Genre
• The tempest is a whole mash up of
different Genres, this play is a
“tragicomedy” mixed in with a bit of
romance

6. Conflict
• Man to man (Prospero & Caliban)
when prospero banishes caliban
• Man to supernatural, with
prospero using him magic to
control people

7. Main Conflict
• Major Conflict - Man vs. Society -
Prospero, the duke of Milan and a
powerful magician, was banished
from Italy and cast to sea by his
usurping brother, Antonio, and
Alonso, the king of Naples. As the
play begins, Antonio and Alonso
come under prospero’s magic power
as they sail past his island.
Prospero seeks to use his magic to

8. Structure
Beginning
• Exposition-From the real world the
action passes into the realm of
enchantment. in talk with Miranda,
Prospero unfolds his past history
and the past history of the island.
This part of the scene has the
effect of a classical prologue.
Ariel and Caliban are introduced,
and the Exposition closes with the
entrance of Ferdinand as Ariel

9. Structure
Middle
• Conflict- The conflict arises when
Prospero's magically conjured
tempest at sea brings the ship of his
betraying brother Antonio, the
illegitimate Duke of Milan, to the
shores of his Island where he and his
daughter Miranda live in quiet exile
after Antonio wrenched his throne
from while he had his back turned
studying the Classics. That is to say,
the shipwreck brought nothing but
trouble and the conflict is between

10. Structure
End
• Resolution- Prospero recognizes
the marriage contract between
Ferdinand and Miranda, and a
Masque is "presented" to celebrate
the betrothal. After Prospero
utters the farewell to his actors,
Ariel enters with news of the
collapse of the Caliban plot,
Prospero has now all his enemies in
his power, and when Ariel "discases"

12. Caliban; Beginning of play
• Calibans relationships: Caliban is a slave to
Prospero, after they start off in a good
friendship but after Caliban tried to rape
miranda in order to "people” the island
• Motives driving Caliban are that he wants to
be treated equally and he wants to populate
the island

13. How does Caliban change?;)
• Caliban changes throughout the
play by having a decent friendship
with prospero after he saves him
on the island and prospero teaches
him to speak, but later on in the
play Caliban ruins this friendship
and becomes prosperos slave
because he tried raping Miranda in
order to “people” the island

14. Bibliography
• http://www.shakespeare-
online.com/plays/thetempest/tempes
thudsonaction.html
• http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespe
are/tempest/
• http://www.enotes.com/tempest/discu
ss/explain-conflict-tempest-65343
• Six shakespear stories – Leon