Depending on how you perceive life will influence how you feel about the city you live in. People who live honest lives and see the glass half full will have more hope in the face of tragedies. not living an honest life and seeing the glass half empty will be more derogatory during tragedies. An optimist will also view the tragedy as a time of rebuilding while a pessimist will view the same tragedy as life as we know it. In this essay I will describe the view of London from Dyden's Annus Mirabilis and Pepys's Journal, discuss what each extract has in common and what differs regarding the depiction of the Great Fire of 1666, I will show each author's attitude towards the city, the nation and its inhabitants and finally show which writer is the most optimistic about the future of the city. From the first line of Annus Mirabilis you can see that the author considered the city before the fire to be a great city that turned for the worst "Yet London, empress of the northern climate, By high fate you greatly expired ” (2085, 1-2). be destroyed by God because of the sinful nature of the townspeople Dryden must have believed that London was to suffer the same fate, but instead of being completely destroyed and gone forever, London is not burned to the ground and is rebuilt. better than it was before "Great as that of the world, which at the death of time must fall and rise nobler image" (2085, 3-4). Looking at how Pepys feels about London, it's a little harder to decipher because he's writing...... in the middle of a sheet... and that will prevent him from making the sky will fall if everything doesn't happen as he thinks. In this essay I have described the view of London from Dyden's Annus Mirabilis and Pepys's Journal. I have also discussed what each excerpt has in common and what differs regarding the depiction of the Great Fire of 1666. I have described each author's attitude towards the city, the nation and its inhabitants and I ultimately presented Dryden as the most optimistic writer regarding the city's future. Remembering to look on the positive side of things when tragedy strikes is sometimes what makes us resilient enough to rise from the ashes and rebuild ourselves. Every place on earth experiences tragedy and it is not the tragedy that defines people, but it is the actions they take afterward that determine who they really are..