In Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, the character Prospero has taught
Caliban, an island native and now Prospero's servant, how to speak. In this
excerpt, Prospero argues with Caliban.
PROSPERO
I pitied thee,
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
With words that made them known.
What can be inferred about Caliban based on Prospero's choice of the word
gabble?
