Rhetorical Devices In Self Reliance

In his essay Self-reliance, Emerson falsely claims that the ability, commitment, and effort to provide the spiritual and temporal necessities of life for self and family because we need to have time for our family.

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Emerson, claims that an abolitionist should worry more about his or her own family and community at home than about black folk a thousand miles off and he chides people who give money to the poor. The important thing is to act independently. What I must do is all that concerns me not what the people think. The urge to remain consistent with past actions and beliefs inhibits the full expression of an individual's nature. For example, we need to learn not to let our past hold us back we need to move on forward and …show more content…
Emerson asks why people view the acts of well-known individuals as more important than the behavior of ordinary citizens, even though the good or bad behavior of ordinary people can have effects as noble or as dire as the actions of the powerful. For Instance, he is arguing that society does not necessarily improve from material changes. For example, advances in technology result in the loss. The most effective image for this static nature of society is the wave. A wave moves in and out from the shoreline, but the water that composes it does not; changes occur in society, but society never advances. For example, Emerson now focuses in which self reliant individuals are needed religion which fears creativity culture, which devalues individualism. Emerson now focuses his attention on the importance of an individual's resisting pressure to conform to external norms, including those of society, which conspired to defeat self-reliance in its members. The process of so-called