Discovery Essay Flashcards
What is the nature of discovery?
The nature of discovery entails a journey that renews an individual and their relationship with their world or themselves. Discoveries can be pursued or unanticipated and can be beneficial or adverse. Primarily they are the acquisition of greater knowledge or a new perspective.
What does Prospero discover?
Prospero learns to recognise the limitations of his magic as well as the ability of love and forgiveness in elucidating one’s purpose and place in the world.
Telltale Heart about?
Edgar Allen Poe’s character reflects how humanity rationalises it’s wrong doings, reveals the dark side of humanity and how the mind can deceive itself.
Prospero’s rediscovery of his values/purpose/place in the world? (Topic sentence two)
The pursuit of revenge and the following loss of purpose inevitably leads to the corruption of an individual’s values. Throughout THE TEMPEST Shakespeare makes it evident that Prospero has strayed from the Elizabethan ethos of love, family loyalty and humanism.
Prospero’s discovery of self and how he strayed from his purpose and values and reassessment of self? (Second paragraph)
Shakespeare uses symbolism to help his audience come to the same realisation as Prospero. His officiation of Miranda and Fernando’s wedding symbolises Prospero’s return to the Elizabethan ethos and his rediscovery of love and his restored sense of purpose and place in the world. “I have given you here a third of mine own life” is said in handing Miranda to Ferdinand to symbolise His restored faith in love.
Shakespeare shows his restored sense of purpose and place in life with metaphor in “The solemn temples, the great globe itself,/Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve…” The metaphor for life’s impermanence and beauty is his restored sense of self.
Tell tale heart - humanity’s deception (first topic sentence)
In THE TELL-TALE HEART Poe explores how humanity’s true self is often revealed inadvertently through action.
What is the Tempest about? (Topic sentence first paragraph)
The forces of nature and the liberating and redemptive power of forgiveness in the face of man’s inhumanity towards man.
Heart character’s self discovery?
Although the protagonist believes himself to be sane, through the retelling of his story he realises his own insanity. Poe to the insidious nature of our own true personalities and the dark side of human nature in. Further enforced by sentence structure: short, builds pace reflects protagonist’s state of mind. Hyphens link ideas that should be separate sentences “I foamed! - I raved! - I swore!” Further enforced by asides and exclamations “Almighty God! - no,no! They heard!”
Prospero’s discovery of forgiveness and reassessment of others? (Integrated paragraph)
Shakespeare represents Prospero’s first steps towards forgiveness with metaphor and soliloquy in “my library was dukedom large enough” shows admittance of own fault in exile. Later Shakespeare uses righteous language to show Prospero’s final redemption in “Most cruelly dids’t though Alonso use me…thy brother was a furtherer in the act…You, brother mine, that entertained ambition…I do forgive thee”. Power of forgiveness.
Heart’s link to tempest (integrated paragraph)
Similar to the tempest Heart explores how discoveries can change our view of others
Heart’s reassessment of others (integrated paragraph)
Uses heavy irony and juxtaposition of the character’s thoughts and actions in “I loved the old man” and “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man”. Thinks he hates old man but discovers he feared him through retelling of story. Fear emphasised by rhetorical questions in “What could I do?” , “Why would they not be gone?”, “What could I do?”
