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Caliban

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Cal·i·ban  (kl-bn)
n.
A satellite of Uranus.
[After Caliban, the slave in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.]
Caliban [ˈkælɪˌbæn]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a brutish or brutalized man
[after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611)]
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"You are a sort of monster," I added audaciously, "a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy.
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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
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You are still yourself as now, and yet you are yourself no longer; you who, like Ariel, verge on the angelic, are but an inert mass, which, like Caliban, verges on the brutal; and this is called in human tongues, as I tell you, neither more nor less than apoplexy.
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