Essay On Caliban In The Tempest

Both Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the inmates from Shakespeare Behind Bars suffer a demotion due to poor decisions - from free man, to scum-of-the-earth. Caliban is considered friend to Prospero until he attempts to rapes Miranda, from which he is punished and considered slave to Prospero from then on. Similarly, the inmates at Luther Luckett have committed horrid crimes ranging from theft, to rape, to murder. These actions contain consequences that alter one’s reputation permanently, which can lower self-esteem and self-image. These are the exact problems that the Shakespeare Behind Bars program targets through the teaching of The Tempest. Initially, Caliban and the inmates may seem comparable due to the similarity of their offenses; however, Caliban’s lack of remorse allows the the inmates to look at caliban with …show more content…
With emphasis on self-esteem and self-image in the core values, and the recidivism rate of Shakespeare Behind Bars’ alumni being 70 points lower than the national average (6% as opposed to 76%), one is left to marvel at the compelling indirect correlation between recidivism and high self-esteem and