Human nature

When thinking about human nature what first comes to your mind? In "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf, Septimus is a veteran suffering with PSD. Woolf writes about his life pre-war and post-war. On page 89, Rezia expresses her desire of having children, more specifically a boy just like Septimus. Septimus doesn't share the same desire; this is shown through the diction Woolf uses to portray it. She expresses, "One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that."(page 89 Human nature in the perspective of Septimus is negative and without beauty. Septimus believes this because of all the tramatic experiences he has been through in his life. Septimus wants no one to live as he lives. When Woolf says, " have no lasting emotion" she connects this to Septimus because he can't feel anything. When his friend Evans dies, Septimus expresses in the book that he didn't feel any emotion toward the tragic event. The cliché saying is that, "Bad things happen to good people." Tragic events happen to most people in the world at least once. Some events more severe than others.