Shakespeare Create A Discrepancy Between Caliban And The Colonizer

Repetition and meter were singular literary devices used to create a discrepancy between Caliban and the colonizers for the duration of Scene 2. Caliban’s monologue, in lines 1-17, is written in iambic pentameter and contains a sophisticated rhetoric as well as poetic language. Conversely, Trinculo and Stephano’s dialogue throughout the scene is without an organized structure or meter. This distinction leads me to believe that Shakespeare was showing how Caliban, the individual being colonized, was more worldly and undeserving of the savage mask that the colonizers placed over his existence. To conclude the scene, Caliban sings a song that ends with the lyric, “[f]reedom, high-day, high-day freedom, freedom high-day, freedom (line 162).” This