Journal 44: Reason Sits Firm

The interesting part of this English novelist’s quote is that, she uses personification to describe reason and judgment. In the quote, she says that reason sits firm and holds the rein, which can be interpret as reason is a person that holding the rein and trying to control everything. And, our passions can rage furiously and cannot be stopped without our clear sense of judgment. Indeed, according to the quote from Charlotte Bronte, sometime we do makes something furiously or out of mind. However, reason and judgment are still the two basic instincts we have. These two things control our mind before we wanted to do something crazy or unrealistic. For instance, one might perform a murder if he/she is lacking of judgments and reasons. He/She will do anything as long as it is worth. This can happened to anyone in the world. Every person on this world has different sense of judgment toward everything. Some got good judgment; on the other hand, some got bad judgment. Moreover, people do things with reasons. So, that is also why I think these two instincts are related together. In order to do the right thing, one has to perfom it with great judgment and accurate reason.