Trinculo's Surroundings

Trinculo has a natural instinct to understand his surroundings and use them to help him survive. Trinculo is wandering around the island looking for life and for people after he swam from the ship. While exploring the seemingly deserted island he
TRINCULO: What have we here? A man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish. He smells like a fish, a very ancient and fish-like smell, a kind of not-of-the-newest poor-john. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth. I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander that hath lately suffered by a
(II.II 25-40)
Trinculo first inspects Caliban and asks himself if it is “a man or fish” which is him splitting what he has found up into two categories to better inspect this foreign animal. Splitting it up into two categories really shows how how he thinks that these two categories could apply to him and help him. Trinculo better inspects the traits of what he has found and concludes that it has “a very ancient and fish-like smell.” “Ancient” means that it’s extremely old and possibly means that he can’t eat it and he also concludes that it has a “fish-like smell” which is him trying to see if it’s rotten. Trinculo now firmly believes that what he has found is inedible but could possibly aid in him in the future as he says that in England “would this monster make a man.” Trinculo uses the word “monster” to classify what he has found because he believes that this is not a man or a fish and is foreign to him. Trinculo states that if he would bring this monster back to England, it could “make a man” meaning that it could make a