1'For I am all the subjects that you have, Which was first mine own king."
1:2; Caliban reveals the actual weakness of Prospero's power by exposing its unfairness
2"And here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island."
1:2, Caliban laments the loss of his freedom for imprisonment
3'You taught me language, and my profit on 't Is I know how to curse.'
1:2; Caliban's response to Miranda's claim at educating him
4'Be not afeard. This isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.'
3:2; The isle speech, which shows how Caliban's interaction with the island is far more romantic and spiritual than anyone else's
5'This island's mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me.'
1:2; Caliban's claim to power through primogeniture arguably supersedes that of Prospero's usurpation
6'Hast thou not dropped from Heaven?'
2:2 Caliban's reaction to Stephano and Trinculo, which is also a foil to Miranda's earlier reaction to Ferdinand and the courtiers later in the play
7'I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace.'
5:1; Caliban's resolution in the play, which sees him internalise responsibility for his subjugation
8'What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god And worship this dull fool!'
5:1; Caliban's shows by this line the final loss of his innocence, as he has irrevocably become inféct with human reason and mistrust
9'Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.'
4:1; Caliban's resistance to material worldly charms in comparison to Trinculo and Stephano
10'Beat him enough: after a little time I'll beat him too.'
3:2; Caliban's of internalisation of physical abuse being the correct way to discipline another
11'Has a new master: get a new man. Freedom, hey-day!"
2:2; Caliban's tune at being 'released' from Prospero's grasp, despite being taken by the hands of another
12'I'll sho thee every fertile inch o'th'island; And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.'
2:2; Caliban's innocent and generous offer to Stephano that echoes his past mistakes
13'I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject; For the liquor is not earthly.'
2:2; Caliban being subjugated through the use of alcohol, making all of his promises to Stephano void because of his intoxication
14'His spirits hear me And yet I needs must curse.'
2:2; Caliban feels such emotion that he cannot help but curse Prospero even when it will bring him punishment, and to do so he must use the language forced upon him
15'I have used thee, Filth as thou art, with humane care (...) Till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child.'
1:2; Prospero's justification of his treatment of Caliban
16'A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick...'
1:2; Prospero's interesting use of psychoanalysis of Caliban's apparent inability to learn
17'This thing of darkness, I Acknowledge mine.'
5:1; Prospero's apparent taking of responsibility for Caliban
18'a cultural and political vehicle by which writers keep reinterpreting his character to serve their own goals.'
Prof Pian Chand and Shivani Chaudhary - a view on reductive critical analysis of Caliban
19'It is not a story of a usurper and a usurped but it is surely a story of power which one has more than the other and takes advantage of.'
Prof Pian Chand and Shivani Chaudhary - a view on the nature of power in the play and in general
20"Prithee, my king, be quiet."
4:1; Caliban, much like the boatswain, uses imperatives to order those social higher than them to act sensibly when they otherwise are not, subverting the power
21"The monster is Prospero, who projects into Caliban the darkness within himself."
Bates on Prospero's treatment of Caliban