Discovery essay for trial exam.

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Would appreciate some feedback on my discovery essay. Preparing for trials
>Don't have a conclusion.
>Would like it to be broad so I can answer any question thrown at me.
>Please help me cut any unnecessary sentences out.

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Discoveries can be transformative, as they can provoke new values that offer a new understanding and renewed perception of outselves and others. This is evident in William Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest (1611), as Prospero is confronted by the realisation of his inhumane attitudes. Though his accpetance of his faults he is able to rediscover his humanity and become virtuous. Additionally, as Miranda was forced to conform to the expectations of Perspero she adopted his perspective. Hence leaving her isolated through a lack of agency. As she rediscovers her past she rebels agaisnt him, falling inlove with Ferdenant to symbolise her assertiveness through the establishment of her individualism though the realisation of her identity. These two characters are seen to shift from feudal to renaissance values. While forest within Winston Groom’s Forest Gump is provoked by the environment of unique areas to be more insightful. This demonstrates how discovery acts a catalyst which influencess unique transformative change to occur.

Miranda within the ‘Tempest’, is isolated through a lack of agency due to her naivety, as she is forced to conform to the expectations of her father. However, as she discovers the her concealed past she becomes rebellious allowing her to express her individualism through the expression of her assertiveness. This naivety and restricted perspective is seen when she first meets Ferdenand. “A thing divine, for nothing naturaI I ever saw so noble.” First person diction highlights her lack of worldly experience due to her lost past, which reflects her state of isolation as she lacks any form of individualism. Miranda is provoked by curiosity, as she persuades her father to admit the reasoning for his exile. “O! My heart bleeds!” The personification made through the idiom emphasises the confronting nature of her discovery of her concealed past, evoking a sense of individualism within her. Miranda acts on this individualism through rebelling against her father, and falling in love with Ferdenand. “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!” This metaphically highlights the assertiveness of Miranda, as it symbolises the establishment of her individualism representing a renewed perception of herself. Representing a shift from feudal to renaissance values. Through this, Shakespeare utilises the the naiviety of Miranda, to highlight the provocative nature of discovering her lost past which acted as a catalyst to allow her to transform from being isolated in him limited perspective, to expressing her individualism through her established identity.


Within the ‘Tempest’, Prospero’s confronting inhumnan discovery of himself allows him to become virtuous, giving him a renewned percept of himself as he becomes forgiving. The usurption of Prospero influenced him to become a creature of tyranny through the emotional experience of beytrayal “Ill render an oak, and peg thee.” This mordality symbollises the realisation of his uhumanity, which can be seen through the manefistation of his attitudes made through the visual representation of Caliban. “He is as disproportion’d in his manners. As in his shape.” The use of syntax utilised by Prospero ironically highlights the justaposition of the two, as the deformed representation of Calliban represents the change to inhumane values of Prospero. Prospero is confronted by this realisation as he accepts his faults allowing him to become more human, influencing a renewed perception of himself. This transformation is seen through Ariel’s plea “If you beheld them, your affections would become tender.” The high mordality of Ariel emphasises Prospero’s transformation, as he looks past his indignation and favours his sympathetic reasoning against his cruelty, thus as he is more forgiving he becomes more human. This transformation allows Prospero to exercise virtuous nature. “The rarer action is in virue then in vengence.” These behavious act as foils to highlight Prosperos new understanding of himself, as the intensly meaningful discovery of his humanity influenced him to be forgiving towards Antonio, “I forgive thee”, thus displaying a representation of his virtue. In this way, Shakespeare utilises the discovery of Prospero’s humanity as a catalyse, to allow his virtue to influence him to be forgiveful, thus delivering a renewed perception of himself which displays a shift of feudal to renaissance values.

Forest within ‘Forest Gump’, demonstrates that through the confronting one’s issues, individuals are able to discover new worlds and values that stimulate the idea of unification. In the beginning of the film, Forest is told to run from his problems, which is seen to be his secluded lifestyle. “Run Forest Run.” As there is behind shot of him despirately running from bullies. The repetiton emphasises that through fleeing from ones problems he isnt able to discover his identity. This is challenged when a millitary officier hands Forest a flier with the president pointing at him, commanding him to join the army. The close up vector of the president initiating a call to war emphasises due to running away from his problems, he is sent to comfront them. Demonstrating the unexpected nature of discvoery which offer new understandings of one self. This is seen through Forest’s idealised perspective of the world, as he ignores all grim social realities and thus rejects the dehumanising nature of society and hence evokes a sense of unify. This is seen through the close up shot of Forest on the hospital bed, instead of leaving his lieutenant who has no legs and hence his problems, he pleads for him to consume ice cream. The ‘icecream’ symbolises the stimulation of a new idea, through optomistic joy that Forest looks to give the lieutenant, as he views him as whole person, thus ignoring the dehumanisating nature of society. The vector of handing him the icecream represents his establishment of unity which looks to establish as he has confronted his problem of secludedness. In this way, Winston Groom represents the aspect of  courage as a catalyst for the discovery, as it allows indviduals such as Forest to confront their issues of the valuation allowing unification to be evoked.