Therefore, a challenge results and provided discreditation against the colonial perception of these indigenous peoples as heathens and due to this contrasting representation of Caliban, who symbolizes the natives in the seventeenth century. Colonists also argued that they had no choice in the treatment of the natives due to their incivility and ruthless nature, that murder and enslavement were their only available reactions in order to establish a successful English colony. However, in The Tempest, Prospero claims that Caliban will only complete his labor in response to a whip in place of kindness, and that failure to do his unfair and gruelling work will result in “cramps, side-stitches that shall pen up [his] breath” and pinches with “each pinch more stinging” (I.ii.329-350). The island landed upon by Prospero and Miranda is under the rightful ownership of Caliban. They stole him from this position and thrust him under their shoe even after the kindness he displayed, and was abused and tortured with failure to comply to their every unreasonable and unjust