Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts In Air

The terms tradition and change are used in everyday conversation and society itself has many debates about these terms. Marshall Berman wrote an academic text called “All That Is Solid Melts in Air". In this text, Berman brought forth ideas that people have different states of mind when it comes "change ways" or "tradition ways". For example, five centuries has passed since people came to terms with influence of a “change world” (Berman 15-16).However, the conflict of what is tradition and what is change continues to be view different by an individual as well society. Also, societies or individual within the society can express their opinions through literature. Literature gives societies the power of interpretation that is so important to finding satisfaction and finding peaceful ways to communicate with each other about their personal belief or idea. With literature, it is possible to view how societies view idea of change …show more content…
Honest man presences forces change in the town society because he doesn’t want to accustom to their beliefs. From the people’s perspective, the honest man is responsible for the up roar and confusion in the town because he brought a change to it which they were not custom to. The honest man believes he’s not responsible because his abiding by his morals. The story makes its readers wonder if they live in society where people like “the honest man” or even the town’s people are subject to change their belief. People might follow certain morals that they believe absolutely right, but their moral might have a bad effect on the bigger picture and hurting everyone else around them or the society as a whole. In that perspective, is it a society obligation to yield to the perceived norm of everyone else around them? Do they give into the idea of change? Or does that make them lose their