a tempest i shakespeare had raised a tempest in his era and my heart (take the tempest as an example) lu meireading reportprofessor hedecember 1, 2011 a tempest iiabstractshakespearewas the great spirit of the renaissance as a single person. he wrotemany famous poems, dramas and tales, and almost all of his works had raised a tempestin his era. his stories have great impact on their days. take the famous talesthetempest as an example.in order to usurp the throne, antonio colluded with the king of naples and framedhis brother, prospero, who was the duke of milan and his three-year-old daughter,miranda. they were banished to an uninhabited island with no daily necessities andservants. the wretched father and daughter lived in the island for more than ten yearsand eventually prospero gained the ability to control the force of nature. he designeda tempest to revenge. in his plan, he made agloss that, ferdinand,the prince of naplesdied in the tempest to make his enemy think about what they had done to him. knowingthis, antonio and the king of naples suddenly realized that there were something moreimportant than authority and wealth. it was the love among family members. they feltashamed of what they had done. they decided to rectify their errorsthoroughly. andprospero, who was the victim, decided to forgive them and marry his lovely daughter,miranda to the innocent prince. thus the story ended with a happy ending.a tempest 1shakespeare had raised a tempest in his era and my heart (take the tempest as an example) shakespeare lived in the renaissance. it was an era that people started to realizethe value of human beings rather than had eyes only for the god. this times featurewas thoroughly shown in shakespeare’s stories. and his stories also diverted people’s attention to their own value. his tale the tempest was his last masterpiece, and it is said that the tempestwas his willing written with poetic words.and i think it is one of his most powerfulstories.in this tale, every character stood for one specific social group. prosperowasthe representative of people withhumanism thought. such group of people were out ofkey with the society. thus they would suffer a lot just like prospero, who was framedby his dear brother and had a long hard life in an abandoned island with his youngdaughter. it was the same with shakespeare himself. as a humanist, he was pushed asideby the conservative party. life was hard for people like him. but eventually prosperowon without hurting anybody. it showed shakespeare’s belief that he would finallywin people’s understanding and people would someday awake. andi think he wasabsolutely right. and antonio andthe king of naplesaccordingly stood for conservative people, who were also soblinded by greed that they only chased for authority and wealth and ignore theprinciples that they should stick to. their final repentance not only showed thevictory of prospero but also it was a demonstration of the awakening of the humannature. as for miranda and ferdinand, who fell in love with their fathers’enemy buthad happy ending were the typical of those who were suckers and knew little aboutthe darkness of the world. nice people deserve a perfect ending. they were lucky tohave a great man like prospero to protect them.caliban, the son of the evil witchstood for those who were bad to the bone and even had no grateful heart as he wantedto humiliate the daughter of his benefactor. and finally he became the slave ofprospero. therefore he stood for the evildoer who would never be moralized. ariel,the little sprite, was a great help in prospero’s revenge plan. he stood for thosewho stuck to justice but were not as powerful as they should be. so they had to lookfor the help from others or they could be the helper of great people. they were faithfulto their masters and long for freedom. to get freedom they would do what their masterasked them to do.and gonzalo, the kind lord of prospero’s court, who saved prosperosecretly by giving him some daily necessities, was a kind-hearted person who knewwhere his heart should be.above is the symbolic meaning of each character in the tempest. we can see that the tempest is actually a reflection of the real society. duringthat time, the whole society was superstitious to the god, and people paid almostno attention to themselves. they also admired authority and wealth.shakespeare wasbrave to write such stories tosatirize people’s mis-belief and spoke out his assertion.since his stories obviously uncovered the darkness of the society, it raised a tempestin that era, too.he was criticized and misunderstood for a long time. but finallyhisstories successfully awaken people’s awareness of their existence. though not allpeople agreed with him, he did a big strike to the society. there is something thatonly time can tell.in my opinion, his stories are not only valuable in his era, but also a preciousheritage of contemporary society. it set a tempest in his era and my era. his storieshave immortal meaning.i have learnt a lot from his masterpieces. firstly, i think it is important tokeep a kind heart. only kind people can receive a happy life. secondly, there shouldbe some principles that we must stick to, like honesty, charity, and kindness. thirdly,there are a lot of things that are more important than money and fame. that is love.last but not least, we should learn to forgive and forget. forgiving means freeyourself from hatred and only this kind of people can lead a happy life.篇二：暴雨筛读后感暴雨筛？是什麽？刚开始看到这个题目的时候，我感到奇怪。