A: My picture displays abuse on nature's freedom. Land, and the trees, flowers, plants and animals on land, are part of the free aspects that nature offers. Humanities aggression on nature's land is littering (as displayed in the picture above). Nature's beauty is being polluted by the pollutants, who are currently humans.
B & C: The text "The Social Contract"by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, speaks in a very liberal tone, with the main idea and thesis of the text revolving around freedom, civil order and humanities rights. Rousseau says "the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man: the role that instinct used to play in his conduct is now taken over by a sense of justice" (114), explaining that as time goes on, you see humanity losing its primal composition. Why? in order to fit into the norms of a built society, built by a group of people (just like any other), who decided to benefit themselves with the hard work of others. Justifying my image, Rousseau says "In the civil state he is deprived of many advantages that he got from nature" (114). However, Rousseau speaks of the advantages man gets from nature poorly, as she continues by saying "but he gets enormous benefits in return" (Rousseau 114). This clarifies Rousseau's opinion, stating that the advantages achieved from nature are not as important as advantages achieved from the civil state. Which, in my opinion is debatable.
D: I believe that the text should extend on the ideas of my image (nature). Rousseau addresses the idea of nature, however he does not reflect upon the conservation of nature and its use to humanity. If humans were slightly more in touch with nature and their origin then, problems in pollution, global warming, water shortage, animal extinction, plant extinction... etc. would be much less drastic as problems. It might also have lead to less wars, poverty and scarcity. Our jobs as humans should not be to destroy nature for our own selfish benefit, rather preserve and nurture it to obtain a better life. Because, nature is the essence of existence.
Works Cited:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ""Social Contract." Shifting Narratives. Ed.
Zane S. Sinno, Lina Bioghlu Karkanawi, Dorota Fleszar, Najla Jarkas, Emma Moughabghab,
Jennifer M. Nish, Rima Rantisi, and Abir Ward. Mazraa, Beirut: Center of Educational
Consultation and Research Educart (Middle East), 2015. 11-667. Print.
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