Analysis and Interpretation of Caliban’s Relationship with Prospero and Others

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Analysis and Interpretation of Caliban’s Relationship with Prospero and Others
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare which is believed to have been written between 1610–1611 and its thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. The story is set on a remote island where a sorcerer Prospero lives with his daughter Miranda and his two servants Caliban and Ariel. Caliban is a monster figure who Prospero found in the island while Ariel is an airy spirit. Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan who had been brought to the island to die by his brother Antonio so that he takes over the leadership, that was 12 years before the play began. The play rotates around Prospero's desire to take back what is rightfully his while using his two servants to achieve the goal. In the process the relationship between the three characters deteriorates and gets amended at some point. This is better illustrated through the warm/cold or rather complicated relationship that the master had with his servant Caliban and other actors as can be seen in Act I, Scene 2. 
The scene introduces the protagonist, Prospero, and then sets out his relationship with the three key characters; Caliban, Miranda, and Ariel (Shakespeare 1.2). The relationship between Prospero and Caliban is complicated. Initially, at the beginning of the play, the two seemed to have a warm relationship until the unexpected happened. The word “seem’ as used above, is not accidental but rather carefully chosen to illustrate a relationship that is punctuated by uncertainty and dynamism. Prospero and Caliban live in a servant-master relationship. It plays out clearly in many scenes, especially whenever the relationship is disrupted or threatened. A relationship that started with respect and love when Caliban welcomed Prospero to the island has now turned into hatred and slavery. The turning point of their relationship was when Caliban attempted to rape Prospero's daughter, Miranda. The irritated Prospero says, “We’ll visit Caliban, my slave who never yields us kind answers” (Shakespeare 1.2.365). In this scene, the master-servant relationship becomes imminent with acts of slavery and cruelty taking center stage.
Caliban has a warm relationship with the rest of the characters except the protagonist of the play. He mainly gets along well with Trinculo and Stephano with whom they plotted to dethrone Prospero. It is important to note that only Caliban is the only indigenous inhabitant of the island apart from Ariel, who is nothing but spirit manipulated by Prospero. The rest of the people around him are foreigners whom he chose to coexist peacefully. Caliban conspires with Stephano and Trinculo to kill Prospero while he is asleep and install Stephano as the king of the isla...