Analysis Of Self-Fashion In Society And Solitude

After stepping into university, each student deserves the opportunity to pursue their education for a major achieving a higher level and successful career. For this reason, each student should pay attention on the methods that instruct them to effectively use the time and materials wisely and the experience that are distinct to everyone in university. In “Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude,” Nunnerl O. Keohane suggests that personal development and improvement require each student to sustain the individual’s special quality, the independence of solitude, and people should more focus on solitude instead of communication. Nevertheless, being over independent in school is not able to shape student’s characteristic properly through developing …show more content…
“Self” fashioned in society is the movement of persistently reflecting from other individuals, so part of “self” is created by the impact from amount of people surrounding “me.” On the other hand, “self” fashioned in solitude is the being of a person, what makes a person unique and special from the others. That is, each student has the ability of self- improvement which lead student to adapt creatively to environment, but not only follow most people on instinct. Keohane points out that society is a huge being which has the formidable power, and this power effects on every individual as long as he or she is connected to the society. Only in this case, it is possible that this formidable power is also able to drag people away from the true “self.” When people are trying to be developed themselves, they have to do so with the interaction and communication with other people in society. The experience and environment create and build people, and, in fact, most of good quality about them comes from the interaction with other individuals. However, the society built by people is able to fashion and shape everyone to be obeying people following the way that most people expect, but not the way he or she is supposed to. For example, in school, it is very common situation that students have to listen what teacher says without enough doubt, so students may make mistakes because of mistake their teacher makes. In addition, people are not always wise and intelligent to make the good choice or decision in reason. Thus, when the goal is to build “self” worthy and properly, people should be very careful about companions and activities of the environment. For achieving this goal, solitude is the good path of self-development because solitude provides the room and time to let people think about what the environment is and what they need to do. Wallace demonstrates most people follow the path