3.03 Two Idealists: Double Feature
3.03 Two Idealists: Double Feature
PART l:
1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education?
Every person realizes that envy is ignorance.
2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson?
The opposite of self-reliance is conformity.
3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person?
The most sacred aspect of a person is their own mind.
4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood?
He thinks those people are not acting like men.
5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: "Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." A. Planting corn is compared to the univer and its people: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." B. An iron string is compared to a vibrating heart: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to the iron string."
C. Clay is compared to :"And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the
PART l:
1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education?
Every person realizes that envy is ignorance.
2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson?
The opposite of self-reliance is conformity.
3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person?
The most sacred aspect of a person is their own mind.
4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood?
He thinks those people are not acting like men.
5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: "Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." A. Planting corn is compared to the univer and its people: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." B. An iron string is compared to a vibrating heart: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to the iron string."
C. Clay is compared to :"And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the