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Browning - Caliban Upon Setebos

Robert Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos”: Creating the Creator

I. Caliban’s view of Setebos
    A. Capricious
    B. Egotistical
    C. Finite

II. Projection of his own self
    A. Hierarchy – suggests a type of evolutionary scale?

    • The Quiet
    • Setebos
    • Prospero
    • Caliban
    • Creatures

    B. Caliban and the creatures
    C. Caliban and Prospero
    D. Caliban and Setebos

III. Browning’s vision of Caliban – conflicting views
    A. Figure of sympathy
    B. Figure of satire

 Updated Friday, May 13, 2005 at 12:44:30 PM by Lydia Hearn - hearnlydia@fhda.edu
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