During the Renaissance people shifted their focus to explore themselves. Humanistic values became more and more common in this time period. Philosophical thinkers were hard at work exploring the questions of life. One of the main questions is one that is still addressed today. The question is whether or not human nature is inherently good or evil. Human nature is inherently good because humans want to help other things, are peaceful creatures vulnerable to corruption, and can always become good again. Humans want to help other creatures. When they see someone in need, they can’t help but feel like they must lend a hand. This can be observed in Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse.” The narrator comes across a destroyed mouse nest. He feels bad and says,
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Some will descend from their true nature and become violent, by they are not brought into the world this way. An example of this is in T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men.” At one point in the poem, the hollow men a stuck in between heaven and hell. They have not done anything extremely good to get into heaven and they have not done anything extremely bad to go to hell. They are just average. The author writes, “Those who have crossed / With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom / Remember us—if at all—not as lost / Violent souls, but only / As the hollow men / The stuffed men” (Eliot 13-18). This men are in purgatory because they have not become violent to get into hell. They have no lost their true nature as good human beings. This true nature is not immune to being tainted by human’s surroundings. This sort of connection can be found in John Donne’s “Meditation XVII.” When Donne writes, “And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author” (Donne) one can see that since we are all under one being, we are all connected. This connection means that one human’s action affects others. When others are affected, there is a higher possibility that their good nature will change, but it is not all over if one loses their good
Some will descend from their true nature and become violent, by they are not brought into the world this way. An example of this is in T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men.” At one point in the poem, the hollow men a stuck in between heaven and hell. They have not done anything extremely good to get into heaven and they have not done anything extremely bad to go to hell. They are just average. The author writes, “Those who have crossed / With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom / Remember us—if at all—not as lost / Violent souls, but only / As the hollow men / The stuffed men” (Eliot 13-18). This men are in purgatory because they have not become violent to get into hell. They have no lost their true nature as good human beings. This true nature is not immune to being tainted by human’s surroundings. This sort of connection can be found in John Donne’s “Meditation XVII.” When Donne writes, “And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author” (Donne) one can see that since we are all under one being, we are all connected. This connection means that one human’s action affects others. When others are affected, there is a higher possibility that their good nature will change, but it is not all over if one loses their good