The mood of the play shifts into comedy
- At first it is a crude, farcical comedy, laughing at the Elizabethan delight in creatures from the New World
- But more serious issues arise when Caliban kneels and worships the 'brave god' with the 'celestial liquor'
The native inhabitants of the New World presented many ethical problems to the European colonists, and the moral issues were widely debated
- Caliban presents himself to Stephano with the same hospitality that he had shown to Prospero twelve years earlier
- "I'll show you the best spring; I'll pluck thee berries / I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough"
- Although Trinculo mocks, Stephano seizes the offer of service, only too ready to exploit the 'monster'
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