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Throughout history, there has always been the issue of a group of people being viewed as a lower form of life, or more savage than society. Some obvious examples of this is the discrimination against Africans during the era of the Slave Trade, or the fear of Native Americans during the time of colonization, or even more recently as discrimination against a vast number of groups of people such as the homeless or those in poverty. Also, one can see this same discrimination taking place in forms of literature all throughout time. A wonderful example of this is “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, in which a particular character named Caliban is often considered to be the most vile of creatures. Caliban is what Marie-Louise von Franz would call “the shadow” character in this play. This is because all of the other characters in the play see Caliban as a lesser being in which many negative qualities are apparent. “When an individual makes an attempt to see his shadow, he becomes aware of (and often ashamed of) those qualities and impulses he denies in himself but can plainly see in other people—such things as egotism, mental laziness, and sloppiness; unreal fantasies, schemes, and plots; carelessness and cowardice