Ty's essay :)

Ty LeVarge
Mr. Hamilton Salsich
English 02
February 24, 2009

Brave new worlds
An Essay on the Virtues on Prospero’s Island in The Tempest
and to How the Real World Would Need Virtues to Bring Peace

“As you from crimes would pardon'd be” spoken by Prospero, is an example of amicable forgiveness. Forgiveness is one of the many themes that brought peace onto Prospero’s Island. The island became a now peaceful island, with the waves silently rushing onto the shore, the wind blowing in the trees, and even the seagulls crying as they look for food. (LOOSE) The island was once like a battleground of treachery, hate, and deleteriously overwhelming power.

“Finally, change is in the air!” is a quote from a random citizen at the end of Half-Life 2 who describes change as Miranda would describe it at the end of The Tempest. The island changes from chaos and confusion to peace. The island came to agreement and settled their differences. Every inhabitant on the island has achieved peace and satisfaction with each other. Another theme that is shown by Prospero is the power of forgiveness. Prospero was able to bring peace by forgiving all those he has harmed. Prospero has even forgiven himself for allowing his magical power to consume him, thus making him thirst for revenge. However, peace has been achieved by unity; and unity is the bridge between people and peace. Without unity, there would not be peace between people. Unity is the missing piece of the puzzle that makes the puzzle incomplete until the last piece is found. Without these pieces, peace could not have been achieved on the small isolated island.

The world needs peace to prevent it from cracking apart in chaos. One virtue of peace is unity. We need unity in order for everyone to cooperate. Without unity of the different people in the world, we cannot achieve peace by any other means. Second virtue, is tolerance. War has broken out with sides raging against each other because of our religion, our color, and our power and many have no tolerance for one person or another (PERIODIC). If we were to tolerate each other for what we are on the inside and not how we are on the outside, then the world would be a much better place. Lastly, we need commitment to keep the bonds of order together. Without people willing to commit to having peace, the world would break apart again. Commitment is the backbone to the body of this world’s order without commitment, everything will breakdown and erupt like a volcano. These three virtues are what could establish this world to be a clean and renovated Earth.

What if these dreams for Earth were to come true? Would Earth be a more peaceful place than it is right now? I believe so. With commitment from everyone, making Earth a peaceful home is not so distant in the future.