“Money can’t buy happiness”, a saying so many people have heard at some point of their life. But in William Hazlitt’s except On the Want of Money he puts this saying to the test. Hazlitt believes that money may not buy happiness, but without money misery is sure to follow. With the use of syntax, diction, and irony Hazlitt gets his belief that a person can not be happy or live a good life without money.
Hazlitt’s most convincing rhetorical strategy used in this excerpt is syntax. It is very obvious in lines 2-47, a very lengthy sentence which takes up a majority of his essay. He uses this sentence to create the feeling of a nightmare. Included in this sentence is a series of wretched things that occur to a moneyless man, basically putting
Hazlitt’s most convincing rhetorical strategy used in this excerpt is syntax. It is very obvious in lines 2-47, a very lengthy sentence which takes up a majority of his essay. He uses this sentence to create the feeling of a nightmare. Included in this sentence is a series of wretched things that occur to a moneyless man, basically putting