The Role Of Prospero In Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

Can you count all the important choices you’ve made in your life?How important were they?In what way has those choices impacted your life?In a short play called The Tempest by William Shakespeare, a character named Prospero is a man who had to make tough decisions that would soon reflect on him as a good. In the play prospero makes many decisions but he made three important decisions that prove he is a good man.His first important decision was “Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition/Worthily purchased, take my daughter...All sanctimonious ceremonies may/With full and holy rite be ministered...Sour-eyed disdain, and discord shall bestrew/The union of your bed with weeds so loathly...Therefore take heed,As Hymen’s lamps shall light you”(4.1.14-23).This …show more content…
“My Ariel, chick,/That is thy charge. Then to the elements/Be free, and fare thou well!”(5.1.315-317).This quote translates to when Prospero was gathering everyone in his cell and then whispers to Ariel that he is free after he makes the sea calm and winds that will help the ship sail fast and safely.This quote connects to my thesis because it proves that Prospero is a good man because he could have easily taken Ariel with him to Milan but he did not he let him go but not only is he a good man but he is also a merciful man.Throughout the play Prospero shows mercy to all by forgiving …show more content…
“Sir, I invite your highness and your train/To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest/For this one night, which—part of it—I’ll waste/With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it/Go quick away: the story of my life/And the particular accidents gone by/Since I came to this isle”(5.1.299-305).From this quote Prospero forgives everyone and tells them his life from the moment he step foot on the island.This decision made Prospero a good man because the story could have easily gone a different way.For example Prospero could have decided to take revenge on everyone but he didn’t he forgave them.In fact he decided to rebuild the ship he had ruined in the beginning for the men,the couple and himself to sail back to Milan. “And in the morn/I’ll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,/Where I have hope to see the nuptial/Of these our dear-belovèd solemnized,/And thence retire me to my Milan, where/Every third thought shall be my grave”(5.1.305-310).This quote in other words means that Prospero is sailing back to Milan and knows that he’ll die there,so he asks Ariel to set the sea calmly and the winds high.Statistics show that forgiving can bring peace,according to the Greater Good Magazine called “The New Science of Forgiveness”, explains how forgiveness brings peace in both the