Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" analysis essay. Task: to write about the impact of the essay in todays society or if it is possible for everyone to be self reliant
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Imagine the world taken over by toddlers who yield to no one. In a world where everyone does as he or she pleases, chaos would dominate. In Emerson's "Self-Reliance", he proposes his version of an ideal society where no one conforms to one another. Even though his ideas maintain influential in modern society, his impractical world contradicts with human nature and ceases to encourage any nation to establish such a society.
Even though Emerson's idea …
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…is your true intent, Emerson suggests. What happens when everyone does as he or she pleases without the fear of consequences? Society does not want chaos but order. If Emerson's advice can only bring chaos to a nation, why would a nation want to practice it? To entirely reject conformity does not insure a better society or self, it only brings chaos to society and feeling of isolation to self. Why take on the unnecessary?
…is your true intent, Emerson suggests. What happens when everyone does as he or she pleases without the fear of consequences? Society does not want chaos but order. If Emerson's advice can only bring chaos to a nation, why would a nation want to practice it? To entirely reject conformity does not insure a better society or self, it only brings chaos to society and feeling of isolation to self. Why take on the unnecessary?
