To browse Academia. Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics, ed. John Hope and Patrick Gray , International journal of pharmacology and pharmaceutical research, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Shakespeare and Nature The Boar First and foremost, it might be argued that both Prospero and Caliban possess the wild boar's attributes but Prospero seems to be associated with some of the boar's demeanor from a mythological perspective while Caliban tends to apply certain characteristics from its animalistic aspect.
Moreover, these two representations are used in a reflective manner, like a mirror, for the former permits to depict a cultural force while the latter corresponds to a natural one. This analogy stems from the medieval legend of Arthur. Indeed, "the most famous swineherd was Merlin, the great magus and teacher of King Arthur, the Boar of Cornwall. Nicolas de Troyes probably took himself the story from Merlin, or, The early history of King Arthur : a prose romance about A.
B Wheatley's edition Also, a similar version by Professor H. Oskar Sommer, where Grisandole also appears, exists but it claims that it had faithfully been edited from the French tale dating from "about A. Gouin, libraire, 25 quai des Augustins, p.
However, having said all this, the parallelism to be made with The Tempest focuses on the notion of duplicity. Prospero, like Merlin, has the power to resort to magic with the help of Ariel in order to control nature Caliban being part of it. While Odysseus has a physical injury from a wild boar, Prospero, though being mental, also carries "this thing of darkness" V, i β , that Caliban stands for.
Both Odysseus and Prospero "correspond to the marginalised initiation candidate who is banished and severely tried, eventually to emerge triumphant and with a new status.
