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|welcome |The Contrast Between Ariel and Caliban in The Tempest | |
| |From The Tempest. Ed. Henry Norman Hudson. New York: Ginn and Co., 1909. | |
|plays |Ariel | |
| |Nowhere in Shakespeare's plays are two more sharply contrasted characters than Ariel and Caliban. Both are equally preternatural; Ariel is the air spirit, Caliban | |
|sonnets |the earth spirit. Ariel's very being is spun of melody and fragrance; if a feeling soul and an intelligent will are the warp, these are the woof of his exquisite | |
| |texture. He has just enough of human-heartedness to know how he would feel were he human, and a proportionable sense of that gratitude which has been aptly called | |
|analysis |the memory of the heart; hence he needs to be often reminded of his obligations, but he is religiously true to...