Self Reliance Essay
S E L F - R E L I A N C E E S S A Y “A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” In these concluding lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, he once again pounds his beliefs in nonconformatism across to the reader. The examples of Jay Gatspy, in The Great Gatspy, and George Babbitt, in Babbitt support Emerson’s strong convictions. Jay Gatspy lived a financially comfortable life but spent all of his time living not for himself, but living for his long love for Dazy, a married woman. And George Babbitt was even more ignorant. Conformatism was this man’s middle name! The only thing this poor man ever thought about was impressing his “so-called” high class friends. This type of attitude brought both of these men sorrow, and even killed one of them. There is no doubt that Emerson had some great thoughts in his essay, but in my opinion his strong belief in nonconformatism is wrong as is confromatism itself. Instead of taking an extreme “right
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Approximate Word count = 1501
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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