The Tempest Research Paper

Have you ever looked at someone and thought you knew who they were? All before you are given an idea of them being completely different from your original idea? The Tempest by William Shakespeare and “En El Jardín De Los Espejos Quebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of His Reflection” by Virgil Suarez are compared together. This doesn't compare the plot of each though, no, they compare a character named Caliban. In The Tempest and “En El Jardín De Los Espejos Quebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of His Reflection”, Caliban's emotions, behaviour, and appearance all take away from the plays main point.

Caliban's emotions are limited in the play, this creates a negative connection to the plays plot. Within the play Caliban's emotions are limited

This throws off the entire idea that is given to us via the play. Caliban's behaviour varies within the play, from scheming to hiding. While in the poem he does very little. “Leaving tracks/ on the bone-white sands, he often stops to catch/ his breath, rest from the day’s delivery of wood/ to prospero's house…” (Suarez 3-6). He is obedient like he is in the play, but now he isn’t angry. He won’t do just about anything to get back at Prospero. He stays quiet, doing as he’s told and then stopping after he is done just to think and wonder. In the play however he is constantly thinking about how to get back at prospero for what he did to him. He is calmer, all because of the emotions he possesses within the poem. These emotions affect his behaviours making him not act as his character did in the play. Think about who he is, what he’s gone through, and how others feel. His behaviours in the play and poem are polar opposite, creating a hole within the plot and its

In the play, Caliban is seen with some scars, while in the poem he is said to be even worse, “..about his naked, swollen, feet/ His scarred face...” “Fourteen scars on his scalp, his fingers/ know the story, each welt, the piece of his right ear/ missing, sliver of cartilage, a nose broken to often” (Suarez 11-19). He was described as a haggle born in the play, and not much else past that point. Within the poem he is very hurt, scars, welts, a piece of his ear gone, cartilage missing, swollen feet, broken noses, All of it gives us this idea of what he must look like, the pain he must suffer each day. How he looks changes the viewers view of him. Making him seem like this misunderstood caring person when in the play he is no such thing. His appearance changes every readers view on that character. The play he is supposed to be cold hearted, uncaring, angry. While in the poem he is the opposite. This changes who he is supposed to be damaging the plot of the play. His appearance in the play and in the poem change how we are to perceive Caliban as a character ruining much of the story