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Caliban reminds Prospero (and the audience) that the island belonged to him after his mother (Sycorax the witch) died and that when Prospero arrived he had shown him (Prospero) round the island. After showing Prospero all the good things and the dangers his reward was to be made a slave. He then has another bout of cursing. Caliban believes this is the only thing he is any good at and , since Prospero taught him, cursing must be good thing. He hopes maybe that when he can curse better than Prospero he will be set free and given back his island.

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