In Mark Twain’s essay “Corn-pone Opinions,” he examines what causes people to conform to the majority's opinions and how it is human nature's tendencies that leads them into imitate others opinions. Although this essay was found and later published after his death years ago, it can still apply to today’s generation and society as a whole. Twain acknowledges in his essay that if a man desired to prosper in life, he would have to conform to the majority’s opinion in order to retain his social and business status amongst his neighbors. Twain also talks about opinions and how it contributes to the fact that people lack the independence of making their own opinions based on their own conclusions rather that the public’s opinions. Twain refers to
