What Is Nature?

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Term Paper Title	What Is Nature?
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What is Nature?
     The concept of nature sounds rather simple, but its true definition has many different variations.  Webster defines nature anywhere from "the external world in its entirety" to "the inherent character or basic constitution of a person or thing."  From these definitions we can gather that the role of nature could range from ones reaction to the environment around them to deep seeded feelings in ones psyche.  In this essay I will show how the simplicity of nature applies to Thomas More's Utopia and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.  While representing the same general ideas, the part of nature plays differently in the plots of these two works.
     In 1516, Sir Thomas More wrote a book describing the ideal civilization.  His writing describes an encounter with a man named Raphael Hythlodaeus, who was an experienced adventurer.  After being introduced by a mutual friend, the character More and Hythlodaeus retire to a serene garden to discuss politics and the discovery of this ideal place called Utopia.
     Under the equator and on both sides of the line nearly as far as the sun's orbit      extends, there lie waste deserts scorched with continual heat.  A gloomy and      dismal region looms in all directions without cultivation or attractiveness,      inhabited by wild beasts and snakes or, indeed, men no less savage and      harmful than are the beasts.  But when you have gone a little farther, the      country gradually assumes a milder aspect, the climate is less fierce, the ground is      covered with a pleasant green herbage, and the nature of living creatures becomes      less wild. (14)
This passage is how Raphael describes his journey to Utopia, but the words have such significance.  We can see by his astronomical description of distances that any such place exists at a remote corner of the earth.  At such a distance, not many people have seen or heard of the Utopian paradise.  Raphael also makes a beautiful contrast when he tells of wild beasts and desolate wastelands gradually giving way to the tame, lush grasslands of Utopia.  The underlying theme in what Hythodaeus says is the Utopian civilization is built on a land of immense natural beauty.  What More describes as a perfect culture is made out of natures purest.
     Several hundred years after the release of More's Utopia, a German author named Goethe wrote a book called The Sorrows of Young Werther.  This was considered a revolutionary text by most German's of the time and earned Goethe a "superstar" statu...

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