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Chesterton's "On Lying in Bed": Understanding Human Nature
In this short essay, G.K. Chesterton is able to display his
absolute understanding of human nature. He explains this nature through
humor and wit in this particular essay, On Lying in Bed. According to this
essay, Chesterton has developed three pa ....
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.... of Chesterton's essay displays his next theory on
human nature. This second theory, that humans promote unimportant values
and cheapen important values, is shown by examples in the next part of the
essay. He interweaves this theory into the essay again by using the
example of lying in bed. He demonstrates that people have begun to believe
that lying in bed is worthless, while in fact, it is vital to life to lie
in bed at some point.
Likewise, people in modern society have priorities jumbled. Some
people now believe that it is more important to make money tha ....
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