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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1202 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Tempest
What is forgiveness? According to the bible the most important Christian lesson on the true nature of forgiveness can be found in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount:
But I say to unto you which hear, love your
enemies, do good to them which hate you
Bless them that curse you, and pray for them
which despiseth you… For if ye love them
which love you, what thank have ye? For
sinners also do even …showed first 75 words of 1202 total…
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To have my pardon, trim it handsomely. (5.1.292)
In the play The Tempest, William Shakespeare shows that power can corrupt a human’s nature and that forgiveness is needed to heal and clean the soul of the human. Prospero realizes that he needs to forgive the people on the island so that he can be set free himself, yet it seems as if he uses forgiveness as just another way to get power.
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