As the criminal charge is investigated, Nunez reveals Gardner to be the real criminal-not only toward Carlos, but also toward his native servant, Ariana (Ariel), and Virginia herself. Inevitably, Carlos and Gardner's daughter, Virginia (Miranda), fall in love the doctor, in a paroxysm of rage at the thought of a sexual union between his daughter and a dark-skinned man, accuses Carlos of attempted rape. Gardner teaches the boy biology, astronomy, music-"an exclusively European education," Carlos later reflects-but his natural brilliance far surpasses anything the doctor can impart. The novel's Caliban is Carlos, a mixed-race orphan whose house on an outlying island the doctor steals. Peter Gardner (the Prospero figure) arrives on the island with his baby daughter after a botched medical experiment in England made him an outlaw. , set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. ) critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest
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