Ralph Waldo Emerson's Chief Disgrace In The World
Part 1: Emerson
Emerson wants scholars to work together instead of individually. "It is not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit --- not to be reckoned one character; -- not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong," (pg. 555, para. 45).
He says patience is important. Patience -- patience; -- with all shades of all the good and great for company; and for solace, the perspective of your own infinite life; and for work, the study, and the communication of principles, the making of those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world, (pg. 554-555, para. 45). In his work, Emerson was trying to educate about the importance and definition of a "scholar". It is defined as a single function for the human being. His audience was students in college. He reaches his intended audience by stating his intent before going into any details about the topic. In the beginning he says, "Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed …show more content…
"His literary aspirations were strongly encouraged by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose successful carrer as a writer and lecturer offered a powerful model to Thoreau," (pg. 648). His earliest works were in the Dial, a periodical established by Emerson. Both Emerson's The American Scholar and Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government were centered around major concers in the country at the time. "It was time for the new country to cast off the influence of European models and develop its own ideas and culture," (pg. 541). Emerson wanted America to use individualism to develop and promote its own lifestyle. "But the essay was written in response to local events and the immediate concerns of the 1840s," (pg.
Emerson wants scholars to work together instead of individually. "It is not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit --- not to be reckoned one character; -- not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong," (pg. 555, para. 45).
He says patience is important. Patience -- patience; -- with all shades of all the good and great for company; and for solace, the perspective of your own infinite life; and for work, the study, and the communication of principles, the making of those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world, (pg. 554-555, para. 45). In his work, Emerson was trying to educate about the importance and definition of a "scholar". It is defined as a single function for the human being. His audience was students in college. He reaches his intended audience by stating his intent before going into any details about the topic. In the beginning he says, "Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed …show more content…
"His literary aspirations were strongly encouraged by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose successful carrer as a writer and lecturer offered a powerful model to Thoreau," (pg. 648). His earliest works were in the Dial, a periodical established by Emerson. Both Emerson's The American Scholar and Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government were centered around major concers in the country at the time. "It was time for the new country to cast off the influence of European models and develop its own ideas and culture," (pg. 541). Emerson wanted America to use individualism to develop and promote its own lifestyle. "But the essay was written in response to local events and the immediate concerns of the 1840s," (pg.