ture. Caliban, echoing the noble savage, talks of the lovely self-sufficiency of the island and his life before Prospero enslaved him. He talks of the fruits and all the qualities of the island that he introduced to Prospero, regrettably. However, sounding like the British imperialist or the ethnocentric American who annihilated native cultures that stood in the way of their land grabs, Prospero contends he tried to educate and provide culture for the native but the vileness of his race prevented Caliban from learning, “I have used thee,/Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodged thee/In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate/The honour of my child/…I pitied thee,/Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour/One thing or other: when thou didst not,/Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like/A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes/With words that made them known: But thy vile race/Though thou didst learn, had that in’t which/Could not abide to be with: therefore wast thou/Deservedly confined into this r
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