Natural will explains to a person how to live under the guidelines given to each person at birth from nature. Every person person, no matter religion, race, ethnicity, is held to the same standards of living and being as stated in the Golden Rule. The Golden Rule states that you should treat others as you would want to be treated. Natural will and natural law are essentially that if you strip it down to the bare bones. In this essay, six characters will be explored through each of their relationships to natural will. In every novel, the characters isolate or semi-isolate themselves from society and live out the rest of their days to their own standards of natural will and natural law.
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Emily uses natural will to the greatest extent of any of the characters in this essay. She uses what she knows and doesn’t let anyone talk her out of it. One example of this is when the town asks her to pay taxes after years of not paying taxes. She explicitly states during the heated discussion to “see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” (Faulkner 2). Emily is shown as the character who is set in her ways and since Colonel Sartoris said she didn’t have taxes after her father’s death because of the money he had given the town, then she will not pay taxes or acknowledge a new sheriff in town. She is locked in the social structure because of her father and how powerful he was. She kills her friend, Homer, because this demonstrates how lonely and alone she is. It shows that she doesn’t want to go back to her normal old boring self. Her natural will is to not get involved in things that have already been said. Emily is in a different place than the rest the protagonists read this semester. She deals with natural will in the way that she is used to doing things her way and she won’t change. The other characters deal with the struggle between right and wrong and sometimes that doesn’t set them straight in the way that it
Natural will states that you are free to live out your …show more content…
Emily uses natural will to the greatest extent of any of the characters in this essay. She uses what she knows and doesn’t let anyone talk her out of it. One example of this is when the town asks her to pay taxes after years of not paying taxes. She explicitly states during the heated discussion to “see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” (Faulkner 2). Emily is shown as the character who is set in her ways and since Colonel Sartoris said she didn’t have taxes after her father’s death because of the money he had given the town, then she will not pay taxes or acknowledge a new sheriff in town. She is locked in the social structure because of her father and how powerful he was. She kills her friend, Homer, because this demonstrates how lonely and alone she is. It shows that she doesn’t want to go back to her normal old boring self. Her natural will is to not get involved in things that have already been said. Emily is in a different place than the rest the protagonists read this semester. She deals with natural will in the way that she is used to doing things her way and she won’t change. The other characters deal with the struggle between right and wrong and sometimes that doesn’t set them straight in the way that it