Caliban is shown here in opposition to Prospero. With the exception of the Goblinoid face and ears, Caliban does look human. What really stands out in this painting is the artistic allusion to God and Adam reaching towards each other with Prospero as God and Ariel as one of his angels.
In this first image of Caliban with Stephano and Trinculo we see the two outsiders with alcohol. Caliban here looks mostly human with the exception of his clawed hands and feet and his sharp teeth. The typical chore of Caliban, hauling wood, lays abandoned in the background with a dancing Caliban taking up the majority of the image. Caliban is actually being treated decently in this image of him although that could be due to Stephano and Trinculo’s drunken state.
In his painting, Buchel depicts a very primitive version of Caliban. While this Caliban is clothed, he still has very animalistic features. These futures include: long claws, long fangs, point ears, and a large amount of body hair to the point it could be called fur. The only evidence of civilization are the notes in the top left corner which were probably put there by someone else seeing as Caliban has no writing instrument.
Paramonov’s Caliban looks mostly human, but there are features he has that makes him distinctly not. His left hand is a large paw with sharp claws as well as a bone spike sticking out from just in front of the elbow. We also see this Caliban gripping a jug of alcohol as though his life depended on it. There is also a distinct lack of clothes being worn by this Caliban showing that, although he appears human, he isn’t human enough for clothes.
The Colonial Monster: Caliban Through Time 