Summary Of Son Chesterfield

As a parent you want the best for your child and you try to guide them in the right path to do even better in life than you yourself did. Chesterfield voices his thoughts about wanting compliance from his son with forms of diction, repetition, and anaphora throughout the letter to show the importance of excellence and also tries to sympathize with him.
Chesterfield starts his letter stating how his advice can be ignored by his son and have no purpose. He turns this comment around by using anaphora to try to sympathize and relate to his son. He writes “I know how unwelcome advice generally… I know, too, that the advice of parents, more particularly, is ascribed to the moroseness, the imperiousness, or the garrulity of old age.” This shows how Chesterfield is trying to create a connection between him and his son. He is
He starts to use diction to get his point across and made it as straightforward as possible. Chesterfield is not giving his son a choice anymore and wants his son to change his ways and become more superior to make not only make himself look better but also make the families image look better. He writes the following “Dependent you are upon me” and “No womanish weakness for yout person your merit must, and will, be the only measure of kindness.” Not just talking about his sons dependence on him for things but also how he will have no compassion for his son unless he begins to transcend and commit to something because he’s been given the resources and tools to do so. In his writing he also continuously uses repetition and throughout the letter you will find the word “excel” showing how Chesterfield wants his son to have more merits and be above others and even states how mortifying it’d be if others excelled him. It becomes crystal clear how Chesterfield values obedience and superiority and entrusts his son will make the correct choice to obey his father’s