It is summarized that the majority of society feels rather then thinks. William Golding, Mark Twain, and James Robinson make it very evident that think is being reduced to emotional judgment, peer pressure and possibly absent. In today society we are more exposed to the world, in which increasing many more vast opportunities of thinking, but do we think more, or have we let the world think for us?
William Golding breaks down thinking into three parts, or groups of thinkers in, “ Think as a Hobby”. The molds that Golding uses to explain his grades of thinking to the readers are the same molds that were pressed upon him as a child. These tools were three statues that resided in his headmaster’s office, of his grammar school. These statues represented love, nature and pure thought; however Golding …show more content…
In one of Twains essay, “Corn-pone Opinions”, a cultured philosophical black man proposed his idea of how men think. Now this would only ever be heard by a 15-year-old Mark Twain, because “It is the way, in this world.”(Twain) This philosopher spent his day preaching to a pile of wood, his preached about his thoughts and ideas of the world. Once Twain was struck for listening to the man’s words, but also by his words. The empowering words where about thinking and how it’s not accomplished, and the idea of an original thought was punishable and/or ostracized, in 1850. To think was to fear.
It wasn’t just the trend of the1850s that had Mark Twain believing, thinking was a lost cause, he gives the example of the hoop skirt. There is nothing special about the skirt except the ideal it held. Twain explains that at first the hoop skirt was mocked, then loved, and now gone, simply that’s how society runs. The hoop skirt is just an example of how random movements come into popularity, or how Twain explains it, “The skirt should be known for people inability to think”.
William Golding breaks down thinking into three parts, or groups of thinkers in, “ Think as a Hobby”. The molds that Golding uses to explain his grades of thinking to the readers are the same molds that were pressed upon him as a child. These tools were three statues that resided in his headmaster’s office, of his grammar school. These statues represented love, nature and pure thought; however Golding …show more content…
In one of Twains essay, “Corn-pone Opinions”, a cultured philosophical black man proposed his idea of how men think. Now this would only ever be heard by a 15-year-old Mark Twain, because “It is the way, in this world.”(Twain) This philosopher spent his day preaching to a pile of wood, his preached about his thoughts and ideas of the world. Once Twain was struck for listening to the man’s words, but also by his words. The empowering words where about thinking and how it’s not accomplished, and the idea of an original thought was punishable and/or ostracized, in 1850. To think was to fear.
It wasn’t just the trend of the1850s that had Mark Twain believing, thinking was a lost cause, he gives the example of the hoop skirt. There is nothing special about the skirt except the ideal it held. Twain explains that at first the hoop skirt was mocked, then loved, and now gone, simply that’s how society runs. The hoop skirt is just an example of how random movements come into popularity, or how Twain explains it, “The skirt should be known for people inability to think”.