Traditional literary history has assumed that England’s colonization of North America and the Caribbean Islands has had a multifaceted influence on Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, in particularly within the characterization of Caliban. For such a minor character with a mere 180 lines, his importance as a character becomes obvious through the critical backlash he receives for his various potential representations. Authors like Julia Lupton believe that Caliban was created through language and moral teachings, therefore is not subhuman. Contrarily, authors like Derek Cohen believe Caliban’s character to be slave-like, as he references direct quotes from the original play and examines Caliban and Prospero’s relationship as master and slave. What is the proper and most accepted portrayal of Caliban throughout these critiques? Is he worthy of being viewed on a human level? Through specific excerpts from The Tempest and literary analysts’ perspectives, Caliban will be examined through three lenses: representation through Adam in the Book of Genesis and his creation by Prospero demonstrating his integrity, the master-slave relationship between he and Prospero force readers to view Caliban as subhuman, and his depiction as a New World “Carib” perpetuating the belief that he is a monstrosity to be dominated by colonization. With so many interpretations of Caliban through cultural, religious and historical analyses, he becomes an exceedingly complex character. Caliban is traditionally represented through the text as a subhuman creature, but it can be argued that Prospero, someone of a higher power and intelligence of language with common manners, created Caliban. Since Prospero came form a highly elevated, social and political standing in Milan, he is informally superior in comparison to Caliban. Although Caliban may have essentially ruled the island with his mother at one point, Prospero oversaw an established and sophisticated city. The creation idea subsequently makes Caliban comparable to Adam from the book of Genesis. In Adam’s case, God is his higher power, who created him and gave him life. Although Prospero did not physically create Caliban, he imbued him with the humanistic qualities that taught Caliban to be more civilized. It could be argued that without Prospero, Caliban would not have come into his self-actualization. The same idea is applied to Adam, because, without God’s moral guidance, Adam would have been lost. Shakespeare literary analysts Julia Lupton further highlights this point: Although in The Tempest the word creature appears nowhere in conjunction with Caliban himself, his character is everywhere hedged in and held by the politico-theological category of the creaturely. As a solidary Adam on an island to which he is native but not natural, Caliban first stood apart the rest of creation as his ‘own king.’ (Lupton, 2) It is true that due to Caliban’s monstrous exterior he does not fit into basic human society. However, since he was created, he is not a degenerate compared to Prospero, which is shown through initial lingual teachings that the two experienced together. Although Caliban was taught a new language and etiquette by Prospero, his native existence on the island is also similar to Adam. God created Adam in the Garden of Eden, where Adam was left to name the objects in which God created. This was also something Caliban took on even though he was not commanded by Prospero to do so. When Prospero first came, Caliban taught him, “And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile” (Shakespeare, 1.2. 16). He showed him the landscape and what it could offer. However, this linguistic comparison also separates Adam and Caliban. Since Caliban taught Prospero the island’s features, flora and fauna, he is now lesser than, but independent from his creator, which is something Adam could not establish. Caliban is not completely dependent on Prospero because before he came, he was living off of the land and surviving, despite lacking social normality. Another similarity that should be noted is both Adam and Caliban’s desire for a mate. In Adam’s case, after he adapted to The Garden of Eden and carried out the tasks that God set before him, Adam finds himself alone in Eden. Apart from creation, this sense of loneliness is a feeling that Caliban also experiences on the island. God thought it would suit Adam to have a helper; through this, Adam started to desire the company of a mate, so God created Eve. Eve was Adam’s companion and the one who would complete him while sharing