Nights at the Circus Lesson Plan

Interpret the following quote, from Lizzie:

“But this grievous condition has nothing to do with the soul, or, as you might also call it, removing the theological connotation, “human nature”. It isn’t in that Grand Duke’s nature to be a bastard, hard though it may be to believe; nor does it lie in those of his employees to be slaves. What we have to contend with, here, my boy, is the long shadow of the past historic (reverting back to the grammatical analogy, for a moment), that forged the institutions which create the human nature of the present in the first place.”

Here, wise old anarchist Lizzie details how she believes it is social constructs and institutions (as well...