"The Tempest" quotes on human nature?

Question

Please help!! i have to read "The Tempest" for school. Does anyone know any quotes on human nature that Shakespeare says in the play? Please help il take anythingg! Thanks guyss<3!

Answer 1

How about (for one) the famous comments by Prospero, expressing the thought that human nature is ephemeral, insubstantial, and so impermanent as to be even dreamlike:

&quot;  ...  We are such stuff as dreams

Are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.&quot;

...............  The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I