Shannon L. Alder, child psychology author, says that, “your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in” (Alder). This perspective is useful when considering Caliban's behavior in Shakespeare's The Tempest, because Caliban is both literally and figuratively held captive in a cage. Through Caliban’s point of view his actions are justified; he knows no other alternative. Conflict arises as Prospero becomes obliviously inconsiderate toward the fact that Caliban legitimately doesn’t know what is right. In his essay The Uncanny, Freud explains the fear of the unknown in things that would seem familiar, which would also suggest that Caliban can be read as a human with animal instinct. The world of The Tempest is a collision between civilized society and the natural state of evil without moral order. Prospero and Caliban were nurtured differently, therefore they have different standards of human nature, and their relationship is overtaken by evil instead of their genuine emotion. Caliban is inevitably evil from birth, therefore, no good can be expected of him. Caliban is first introduced in Prospero’s description of Sycorax. Being both a witch and Caliban’s mother, Sycorax is important because she represents Caliban’s upbringing, morals, and genetics. Sycorax is described by Prospero to be a, “dam’d witch with mischiefs manifolds and sorceries terrible” (I.2, 263-264). Prospero addresses Caliban saying, “Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth” (I.2, 322-323). Caliban is both man and beast. “Caliban is the child of Sycorax and the devil and Prospero treats him accordingly, because he sees no redeemable qualities in Caliban. Stephano describes him as, “some monster of the isle with four legs” (II.2, 60). They see him as a beast. The humans on the island wrestle with the question of whether Caliban is a man or a monster. Freud describes this principle in his essay The Uncanny. “There is no question of ‘intellectual uncertainty’: we know now that what we are presented with are not figmen