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Quote 20 O, it is monstrous, monstrous: Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. (III.iii.) Meaning- Alonso utters these lines in response to illusory shapes and mysterious sounds created by Ariel. His use of the word “monstrous” here is significant primarily as an example of how the European characters in the play find nearly everything on the island to be a form of monstrosity. Whereas the use of “monstrous” with regard to Caliban functions to place his humanity in question, the use of the same word to describe the strange sights and sounds conjured by magic has a subtler effect, since it suggests that Prospero—the primary conjurer himself—may himself be monstrous.