In the opening of "The Tempest" Act 2 and Scene 2, Caliban reveals many punishments and torments that follow him. He says that Prospero's spirit is near him - "His spirits hear me - " (Shakespeare 77, 3). He says the spirits are like monkeys "Sometimes like apes, they now and chatter at me / And after bite me;" (Shakespeare 77, 9-10). He also says they are like hedgehogs who poke him with their sharp spines. "then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount / Their pricks at my footfall" (Shakespeare 77, 10-12). He goes on to say that sn
akes wind around him. "Sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness" (Shakespeare 77, 12-14). So, Caliban is tormented by a variety of things, from apes to adders, and he feels this is punishment by Prospero's spirits who follow him to make him miserable.
Trinculo and Stephano think if the capture Caliban, the "monster," they can tame him and sell him to some rich Englishman. "If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him. He shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly" (Shakespea
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