Topic > Comparing Ariel, Caliban, and William Shakespeare...

Ariel finds the prospect of receiving the punishment of her worst nightmare to be a wake-up call to which she quickly responds by correcting her behavior. This demonstrates Ariel's ability to recognize when she has wronged someone else. This is a fundamental characteristic that separates Ariel as a superego and Caliban as an id. Without being human in the strict sense, Caliban represents, both in body and soul, a sort of intermediate nature between man and brute. Although he has all the attributes of humanity from morality downwards, so much so that his nature touches and borders the sphere of moral life, the result is that it leads him to recognize the moral law only as made for himself. The true meaning behind that morality is too deep for Caliban to understand and is therefore lost to him. He has the intelligence to seem wrong in what is done to him, but he is not aware of what is wrong in himself