The Tempest Quotes

Have you ever thought about the reason behind the way a person acts. Quotes in this paper are from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Virgil Suarez’s “En El Jardin De Los Espejos Quebrados”. This paper will contain a comparison between Caliban’s character in The Tempest, and “En El Jardin De Los Espejos Quebrados”. The poem “En El Jardin De Los Espejos Quebrados”, and The Tempest, shine different lights on Caliban’s character, by going in depth about his appearance, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Characters in The Tempest see Caliban as rude, while in the poem he sees himself as damaged by his past. People around Caliban see him as rude because he is never nice to them, but in the poem, he says his past is the reason he’s rude. On page

523 Prospero says “We’ll visit Caliban my slave, who never/
Yields us kind answer” (Shakespeare 1.2 307-308).

In the poem Caliban says that he is “damaged by history” and “the man in the darkness”. This quote from the poem shows an example of characters in the play saying Caliban is rude. Caliban is a character hurt from events in his past, so he acts rude, and lashes out at people.

In The Tempest Caliban gets called a monster, while in the poem he sees himself as scarred, and unhealable. Caliban’s body is scarred from working, so others see him as a monster. On page 547 Stephano says when describing Caliban “This is some monster of the isle with four legs who/hath got as I take it an ague” (Shakespeare 2.2 60-61). In the poem Caliban says how he has scars, and welts on his body. Caliban gets called a monster by Stephano, and Trinculo because his body is damaged. People see Caliban as a monster based on his scarred, and damaged appearance.

In both the play, and the poem, Caliban wants Miranda, but in the play, he seems to only want her because she’s the only woman on the island, while in the poem he seems to genuinely love her. In The Tempest Caliban tries to rape Miranda, and in the poems he thinks of Miranda. On page 525 Caliban says to Miranda “Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else/This isle with Calibans” (Shakespeare 1.1 350-351). In the poem he sits down and thinks about Miranda, talking about her smile, and “soft skin”. In the play Caliban only seems to want Miranda to have kids, but in the poem the author makes it seem

like he actually loves her. Caliban in both works wants Miranda, but in completely different ways.
The poem “En El Jardin De Los Espejos Quebrados” shines a completely different light on Caliban’s actions than The Tempest, by looking at his actions, thoughts, feelings, and appearance.
In the play Caliban gets compared to a monster both physically and in his actions. Caliban is compared to the appearance of a fish by Stephano. While in the poem Caliban sees himself as scared, and damaged by his past. Caliban also seems to want Miranda in both works, but in the play Caliban only wants Miranda because she’s the only female on the island, he seems to actually love her, in the poem. So think about why someone, looks, acts, or thinks the way they do before you judge them.