1. The Tempest
... core of humanism's appreciation for man. In the final Act of the play Miranda, Prospero's daughter explains spellbound, "O! Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in't." Miranda speaks as an innocent girl who has not lived to see the true wickedness man is capable of. She sees mankind for its potential ... . "Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, and use of service, none All things in common nature should produce." This utopian society of Sir Thomas More's is a humanist idea. Christian themes are also exp...
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