. In the end of Gow’s text ‘away’ the characters grow into a learning of tolerance and some characters even land themselves in complete acceptance of what has happened. This is illustrated with the use of Tom, Coral and Gwen in the play. Tom being terminally ill makes him feel the pressure of time running out for him. In act 4 scene 2 his begging tone “please, just once” identifies the dire urgency to lose his virginity, in this scene of the play tom fears what is to come in his life and has the perceptions of someone who’s afraid to die. But tom becomes acceptant of his illness and the fact that he is going to die with the aid of Coral as they share similarities with grieving based on losing and loss of life. The acceptance of these two is hidden among a play they perform on the spot as they talk about their loss and this aid’s miraculously for Coral and she is also able to finally become completely acceptant of the fact the son has died, from being a mother experiencing grief of the effects of war losing her only child and being in great denial where she is entranced in the past unable to release grief that is overcoming her and is finally at the very end of the novel able to move on.…show more content… For Gwen, here is no Acceptance of self but there is acceptance that is formed through her experiencing of the world in a different manor and communicating with people in a lower class that allow her to grow accepting that not all lower-class people are terrible people and comes to and acceptance with her daughter Gwen being friends with tom. Furthermore, this is portrayed in The Tempest, where humanity’s potential for goodness is explored through Miranda’s character, where she’s an innocent, naive
