Caliban is one of the primary antagonists in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Description While he's referred to as a calvaluna/mooncalf, a freckled monster, he's the only human inhabitant of an island that's otherwise "not honour'd with a human shape“ (Prospero, I.2.283). In some traditions he's depicted as a wild man, or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a mix of fish and man, stemming from the confusion of two of the characters about what he is, found lying on a des… (More on Caliban)