Analysis of Shakespeares The Tempest - Caliban and Trinculo :: Shakespeare The Tempest

Psychoanalytic Analysis of Caliban and Trinculo of The Tempest From a psychoanalytical perspective, both Caliban and Trinculo of Shakespeares The Tempest are interesting characters. Caliban is very sexual and bitter, while Trinculo is at odds with everything his situation of being washed ashore and wrongly charge of saying things when he did non utter a word, as vigorous as Calibans worship of an unkingly man, his drunken friend Stephano. Caliban has obviously not had alone of his relys trained to stay within him, despite Prosperos punishments and Mirandas schooling. Trinculo, on the other hand, wastes his emotions in a bottle of strong drink and knows amend than Caliban who is and is not fit to worship. Caliban is rude, crude, ugly and lazy. Speaking in a psychoanalytic manner, Caliban is going to be remembered as bitter and obsessed with sex. This sexual desire is going to be coincided first with thoughts of his mutation-- a feeling of inadequacy-- and then much significa ntly with the absence of his mother. That he had no parents on which to form an Oedipal multiform and knows only who his mother was (nothing is mentioned of his father) makes for interesting observations on how he deals with sexuality. We learn that he does not deny that Prospero is the only barrier between him and the rape of Miranda. It is deport that he has developed only so far as Freuds theory of id, with sm either touches of the superego. Calibans development of the superego is evident only when he does not wish to receive Prosperos pinches and cramps. He is otherwise all for anything that will bring him pleasure. Being free of Prospero, fulfilling his sexual desires with Miranda and drinking liquor are all on his menu. Trinculo is unable to forget, as the butler Stephano does, all of his woes into the bottom of a bottle. He is upset by the way that Stephano allows himself to be carried away by the worship and praise of Caliban. He is also discourage in the unjust treatment Stephano dispenses on Calibans behalf as Ariel plays arch tricks. Clearly, there is no problem with this jesters ego. He wants himself to be taken care of. He does not appreciate the way he is treated on the monsters behalf, because he knows he has make no wrong. Later, Trinculos id takes over somewhat as he becomes more intoxicated and no longer has the will to let his ego comprise his id.