Find any ONE short passage that deals with 1) the relationship between the natural and the supernatural; or 2) some element of the Supernatural. (Just “natural” is too vague.)

Learning Goal: I’m working on a english discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Discussion Prompt: Natural/Supernatural

We are doing a different variation of textual analysis our discussions have engaged in before. This time, instead of analyzing something you are already presented with, YOU need to present a passage for analysis. For this Discussion Prompt, you are here given an issue/topic (relationship between the Natural and the Supernatural). Pretend that you are writing a critical analytical paper on this issue.

Find any ONE short passage that deals with 1) the relationship between the natural and the supernatural; or 2) some element of the Supernatural. (Just “natural” is too vague.)

Explain WHY you chose this passage (after you give Chapter/page number and the quote) and describe what you would do WITH this passage in a paper.

Please DO NOT PLAGARIZE. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE.

The response should be at least 150 Words before citations.

2. Respond to these two posts with 100 words each before citations;

Number 1: “The words were hardly out of my mouth when we both saw him. Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.

Watson is waiting for Henry but then they suddenly see a creature or a person hidden in the rocks, a person who in their eyes is evil and has a disgusting looking face. Yet, without fully examining the creature/ person how could they know it was someone who were really evil and someone who had a terrible face. For what needs to be seen is what is underneath the surface, how they are personally rather than by appearance. That is actually how many authors have their stories set because at times, that is how it is like in the real world, judging someone by their looks rather than how they are as a person, that is also how it occurred in the book Frankenstein, being judge because he looks scary in person but all he wants is someone to share a life with, amongst other things. The small passage represent how quickly others assume rather than knowing the actual truth.

Number 2: “…there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.”

Watson lays in wait with Sir Henry on the moor, when they finally spot the convict hidden between two rocks and holding a candle. Immediately Watson has a negative reaction to the man. He has only gotten a glimpse of him in the middle of the night, and yet Watson calls the man evil. In Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both the creature and Mr. Hyde are also seen as evil just from a glance. While none of these characters are related in any way, it shows that these narrators are incredibly biased and they assume their audience will understand their subjective descriptors. Calling someone’s face “yellow” has been a derogatory way to describe an Asian person for a long while, despite the stereotype not making much sense at all. I’m assuming that this character is a foreigner or at least not of the typical British demographic Watson is used to. Back then, if someone is called “savage”, we presume the narrator is assuming that the person (who most likely has darker skin than them) is less intelligent and less “civilized”. I find it interesting that he is called an animal, when Watson and Holmes have been told of the Hound of the Baskervilles, and it is possible that could be the culprit. And to Watson, the real “animal” is a man of color who has just escaped from prison, and to whom Watson has only gotten a glimpse of.