possible: defeat and rendition before Prospero; the metaphor of the lowest utilitarianism, in Rodos essay. Regarding the European ideality that he wants for Latin Americans, Rodos words are meaningful. We Latin American have a heritage of race, a great ethnic tradition, to maintain, a sacred place in the pages of history that depends upon us for its continuation (RODO, 2006: p. 73), writes the Uruguayan. Therefore, his definition of Ariel fits in his political agenda for the creation of a new identity for Latin American peoples. He writes:Shakespeares ethereal Ariel symbolizes the noble, soaring aspect of the human spirit. He represents the superiority of reason and feeling over the base impulses of irrationality. He is generous enthusiasm, elevated and unselfish motivation in all actions, spirituality in culture, vivacity and grace in intelligence. Ariel is the ideal toward which human selection ascends, the force that wields lifes eternal chisel, effacing from aspiring mankind the clinging vestiges of Caliban, the plays symbol of brutal sensuality (RODO, 2006: p. 31).Caliban-Like Behavior: Antagonist Caliban is not Ariel. In both Shakespeares (1994) The Tempest and Retamars (2003) Caliban, Caliban walks on a cultural route that is different from that taken by Ariel. While Ariel allies himself with Prosperos project to dominate the island, Caliban not only opposes his oppressors wish to be the lord of the island, but also makes efforts to dethrone him from power. Calibans efforts to take power from Prosperos hands begin with his strong statement that the island belongs to him. This islands mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou takst from me, (SHAKESPEARE, 1994; p.18), Caliban says to Prospero. In his efforts, Caliban includes other actions: first, his attempt to rape Miranda, Prosperos daughter, whom the European brought to the island with him. When Prospero accuses him of such a vile deed Caliban reacts saying that he [would] have peopled else this isle with Calibans (SHAKESPEARE, 1994: p. 19); second, his curse of Prospero in Prosperos own language. You taught me language, and my profit ont is, I know how to curse: the red-plague rid you, for learning me your language (SHAKESPEARE, 1994: p. 19), Caliban says. He goes on with his curses:All the infections that the sun sucks upFrom frogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make himBy inch-meal a disease! [Lightning] His spirits hear me,And yet I need must curse... (SHAKESPEARE, 1994: p. 36).Finally, Caliban makes alliance with two Europeans, Trinculo and Stephano. With such an alliance, he expects to get free from oppression, but different from Ariel who believes Prospero will set him free after he fulfills his bosss orders, Caliban requests the help from Prosperos enemies. He tells them what they must do: first, to destroy Prosperos books, from which Caliban believes Prosperos magic power comes; then, to kill Prospero while he sleeps. there thou mayst brain him (...) or with a log batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his wezand with thy knife...(SHAKESPEARE, 1994, p. 50), Caliban instructs them.In his essay Caliban, Retamar (2003) elaborates his appropriation of the revolutionary agenda that