Culminating Essay Prompt

"Refrain to-night;

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence, the next more easy;

For use almost can change the stamp of nature,

And either master the devil or throw him out

With wondrous potency." 

~William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 3, Scene 4

Nature, the nature of humanity and physical nature itself, is explored in almost every novel. Some feel that as humanity separates itself further from nature, we lose morality. That to improve humanity, we must leave standards of society and become closer to our natures, as well as physical nature. They feel society is evil and nature is good. Some feel that we can not change our natures at all. On the other hand, some feel that we must strive to change our natures: that we can and should improve upon what naturally would occur.  Compose an essay, using you wonderful knowledge of literature and the arts, that argues for the need to change nature in order to achieve morality through meaningful relationships.

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Lear by William Shakespeare

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card