How To Kill A Mockingbird Study Guide Chapter 14
1. “Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him in a withered trunk;”
Nature sent man into the world in its purified state until indulgence has corrupted its being.
2.“he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder) that never grew on his head;”
Man escapes corruption by raising his status through wearing a wig.
3. “but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of all those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady’s chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.” …show more content…
4. “Partial judges that we are of our own excellences, and other men’s defaults!”
We judge our own merit just as we judge others.
5. “But a broomstick, perhaps you will say, is an emblem of a tree standing on it’s head;”
A broomstick is a symbol of an upside down tree.
6. “and pray, what is a man but a topsy-turvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, groveling on the earth!”
Rather than thinking and using his head, man uses his instincts instead.
7. “And yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut’s corner of nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before;”
Although man has his imperfections, he cleanses the world, sheds light into problems and solves them.
8. “sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away;”
Man lives in the same dirtied environment he pretends to
Nature sent man into the world in its purified state until indulgence has corrupted its being.
2.“he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder) that never grew on his head;”
Man escapes corruption by raising his status through wearing a wig.
3. “but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of all those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady’s chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.” …show more content…
4. “Partial judges that we are of our own excellences, and other men’s defaults!”
We judge our own merit just as we judge others.
5. “But a broomstick, perhaps you will say, is an emblem of a tree standing on it’s head;”
A broomstick is a symbol of an upside down tree.
6. “and pray, what is a man but a topsy-turvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, groveling on the earth!”
Rather than thinking and using his head, man uses his instincts instead.
7. “And yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut’s corner of nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before;”
Although man has his imperfections, he cleanses the world, sheds light into problems and solves them.
8. “sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away;”
Man lives in the same dirtied environment he pretends to