Compare how two prescribed texts you have studied explore the tension between humanity and the natural world. The tensions between human aspirations are their perceptions of the wild and the reality of the forces of nature have been shaped in both complimentary and contracting ways in the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare, and Tim Flannery’s The Explores, a collection of diary entries of explorers of Australia. In particular, the entries Coal Black and …showed first 75 words of 1206 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1206 total…as their safety mechanisms “weapons” are “tempered” by nature and it has the capacity to destroy them. It is clear in both The Tempest and The Explorers that the tensions between human aspirations and the perceptions of the forces nature and the reality can shape contrasting or complementary views perceptions of human in the wild. This is dictated by their experience in the wild, whether their safety is threatened or their idealistic aspirations are contradicted.