Life: The Good, The Bad, & The Philosophical
You are living if you have hit rock bottom and soared through the skies; you are not living if you have only walked on level land. Samuel Johnson is a 1700 English writer known through his impeccable articulation of words, shown most famously illustrated through his letters. With the utilization of precise diction, extended sentences, and wide range of subjects, Samuel Johnson is above qualification to embellish countless recollections of different individuals and opinions as the sorcerer of language. His innate ability to depict how brutal, but yet beautiful life may be is countlessly proven through his literature. By the profound manipulation of such scholarly techniques, this author embedded …show more content…
Overall, the letter this quotation derived from, touched base on the mindset of humankind regarding personal achievement and some attributes of it, that in result, ultimately delays innovation as a species. With this, Johnson was able to elaborate the dreary truth that as humans, inflict on ourselves. The massive extended sentence allowed for the audience not only to better understand his logic, but to display the significance of it. This continuation of a single idea, also constituted an exaggerated tone to the passage. Consequently, this English writer was able to expose on various different levels the reality of life with the application of lengthened …show more content…
Already represented in the quotes given above, readers can easily recognize his spectrum of topics. In the Contents section of the book Samuel Johnson Major Words, it comprises of dozens of Johnson’s pieces, one of which includes marriage and obstruct gender roles: “... the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the making the world miserable has been always thrown upon the women...(whether it is their) declamatory complaints, or satirical censures, of female folly or fickleness, ambition or cruelty extravagant or lust” (179). In a matter of a few lines, Johnson refined his thoughts on men’s monopoly on writing, and the image of women inflicted, as a consequence of it. As a honed proficient writer, he is able to express clearly his sentiment on a variety of subjects with language that only augments his credibility to the audience. In addition to the topics of prostitution, human thought, and gender inequalities, this author also verbalizes stoicism:“So large a part of human life passes in a state contrary to our natural desires that one of the principal topics of moral instruction is the art of bearing calamities....it is the duty of every man to furnish his mind with those principles that may enable him to act under it with decency and propriety” (186). In his innumerable
You are living if you have hit rock bottom and soared through the skies; you are not living if you have only walked on level land. Samuel Johnson is a 1700 English writer known through his impeccable articulation of words, shown most famously illustrated through his letters. With the utilization of precise diction, extended sentences, and wide range of subjects, Samuel Johnson is above qualification to embellish countless recollections of different individuals and opinions as the sorcerer of language. His innate ability to depict how brutal, but yet beautiful life may be is countlessly proven through his literature. By the profound manipulation of such scholarly techniques, this author embedded …show more content…
Overall, the letter this quotation derived from, touched base on the mindset of humankind regarding personal achievement and some attributes of it, that in result, ultimately delays innovation as a species. With this, Johnson was able to elaborate the dreary truth that as humans, inflict on ourselves. The massive extended sentence allowed for the audience not only to better understand his logic, but to display the significance of it. This continuation of a single idea, also constituted an exaggerated tone to the passage. Consequently, this English writer was able to expose on various different levels the reality of life with the application of lengthened …show more content…
Already represented in the quotes given above, readers can easily recognize his spectrum of topics. In the Contents section of the book Samuel Johnson Major Words, it comprises of dozens of Johnson’s pieces, one of which includes marriage and obstruct gender roles: “... the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the making the world miserable has been always thrown upon the women...(whether it is their) declamatory complaints, or satirical censures, of female folly or fickleness, ambition or cruelty extravagant or lust” (179). In a matter of a few lines, Johnson refined his thoughts on men’s monopoly on writing, and the image of women inflicted, as a consequence of it. As a honed proficient writer, he is able to express clearly his sentiment on a variety of subjects with language that only augments his credibility to the audience. In addition to the topics of prostitution, human thought, and gender inequalities, this author also verbalizes stoicism:“So large a part of human life passes in a state contrary to our natural desires that one of the principal topics of moral instruction is the art of bearing calamities....it is the duty of every man to furnish his mind with those principles that may enable him to act under it with decency and propriety” (186). In his innumerable