If the Martians can reach Venus, there is no reason to suppose that the thing is impossible for men, and when the slow cooling of the sun makes this earth uninhabitable, as at last it must do, it may be that the thread of life that has begun here will have streamed out and caught our sister planet within its toils
Stephano cannot communicate clearly with Caliban because of his accent, whuch makes him angry. ... Stephano sees Caliban's language abilities as threat and makes plans to subdue him.
