Human Nature Thought Of Disaster

The Last Town on Earth is American writer Thomas Mullen's maiden work. The novel is based on"the Spanish flu"in 1918,it describes how Commonwealth, a small town in the United States fights against influenza invasion. In the novel, flu and war are interwoven, reflecting ignorance and civilization, bigotry and kindness, selfishness and responsibility, moral corruption and soaring of human nature profoundly, causing people to think of human nature with a certain timeliness and significance realistically.From the text of The Last Town on Earth, this article illustrates the specific content of the interpretation through the definition of the two key concepts of"disaster"and"human nature", and from morals and faith, the two important aspects of human nature, discusses the important aspects of people's reactions, choices and thoughts of disaster. In moral, around the issue of the moral dilemma, analysis its formation, and through these two typical personages'image of protagonist's Philip and Graham, stressing that has reflected different choices of different people in front of the disaster, thus formed the depravity of the human nature and flew to rise. In belief, this article through the interpretation of"Bible", shows people who were in the disaster have three attitudes of belief, reflecting when they facing a crisis of faith and spirit reconstruction.The Last Town on Earth is an eternal humanity fable, it is not only reflect the huge damage of disaster for human survival environment, but also the disaster on human consciousness, the ravages of the soul and changes of it. At the end of this article, from the view of human nature after the disaster, it is concluded the enlightenment of humanity that disaster brought to us.