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Duality Between Nature and Society in The Tempest One of the essential themes of The Tempest is the duality amid reputation and society. This is made evident through the character of Caliban the disfigured fish-like creature that inhabits the island upon which the bleed takes place. Caliban lacks civility because he was born on the island deprived of any loving or spiritual morality other than nature and instinct. He is literally man untamed. Caliban is not monstrous simply for the sake of being fright his ghastly appearance is intended to literally depict the essential differences between civilization and natural instinct. Caliban represents man, instinct, and nature in their rawest forms. Part fish, part man, just not really either because he is more mentally ripe than a fish, but devoid of any characteristics generally associated with civilized beings. He displays promise in becoming civilized, but eventually it becomes evident that it is unaccepted to fully tame a wild wildcat, which is what Caliban essentially is. Caliban is more of an animal rather than a daimon. While he is labeled a monster throughout the play due to his appearance, he is in fact an animal. He is not inherently evil or malicious, but relies on his consume instincts and skills that he has learned to adapt to his surrounding and survive. What is vital to survival in society is not necessarily important in nature and frailness versa. In nature only the most basic aspects of survival ar required. Nature is all about survival, at any cost. Society is not. culture was developed out of convenience with the mental and physical skills of man. It h... ...ay. Bibliography Primary Texts William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. discourteous Kermode, with an introduction by Frank Kermode, (Arden, 1964) Montaigne, Selected Essays of Montaigne, trans. John Florio (1603) ed.Walter Kaiser, with an introduction by Walter Kaiser, (Riverside, 1964) tributary Texts Eric Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan, (Oxford University Press, 1991) Jeffrey Knapp, An Empire Nowhere England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest, (University of calcium Press, 1992) Gail Kern Paster, Montaigne, Dido and The Tempest How Came that Widow in?,Shakespeare Quarterly, 35, no.3 (1984) Deborah Willis, Shakespeares Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 29, no.2, (1989)