Annotated Bibliography On The Tempest

Grace Wolfshorndl
English II
Annotated Bibliography
13 March 2021

It’s clear that revenge is the main driving point for the plot of the tempest. I see a good understanding of why there was so much anger to so many of the characters in the Tempest, especially Prospero. Even so, the ending is all about forgiveness and how that is the cause of a happy ending for the play. Furthermore, the power of forgiveness can help ones that aren’t even directly involved. There are many reasons why it led to this happy ending and the media paints that easily. Not just fiction, but there are also studies showing how powerful forgiveness is over revenge. I would like to go through and explain how forgiveness can be beneficial and overcome revenge.

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When the results came in it showed that forgiveness was much more effective than revenge especially in studies 3 and 4. These two studies showed that study 1 where participants were required to remember a time when they forgave someone blended in where people in study 3 imagined being victimized and forgiving that said person. In study 4, it was shown that when they participated, writing a forgiving letter gave them a feeling of humanity again. This overall helped the participants mental health and made them go on a better path of

A major part of this learning to forgive a colleague that has wronged them is some way. With forgiveness, it lets the person release negativity away and increase more positive feelings and gives people a better moral line afterwards. On the other hand revenge can make people feel more destructive and uncivilized and far less rehumanizing than just forgiving. Whenever someone does forgive, their rehumanization helps them connect to more positive communities and centralizes their morality. Reading studies personally made me see how forgiveness helps with one’s mortality and rehumanizes themselves. Prospero starts off being filled with anger and revenge in the start of the play but overtime becomes more humanized and moral. At the very end of Act V he forgives all of the characters that have wronged him and sends them back to their home. He also lets Ariel do one more task before freeing them and lets Cailban have his own island for him to enjoy. This shows if it wasn’t for Prospero’s forgiveness then everyone would most likely end up being dehumanized.

Wolfe, Chelsea. "” A Letter of Forgiveness” Fiction. Based on a True Story of a Broken Heart." TheLoveStory, www.thelovestory.org/a-letter-of-forgiveness/. Accessed 6 Mar.