LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Emerson is try to express that being jealous of someone or envious of them causes us to be less educated or ignorant. By being envious of other people, we cause harm onto ourselves, that can lead to our death.
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Emerson is trying to express that society leads us to envy other people and our quest to try and copy other people ultimately leads to our death.
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Emerson is trying to express that being jealous of someone (envious) of another person is ignorant because by doing so you fail to see your own potential and blessings. Additionally, my imitating or “copying” someone else’s life you are therefore wasting your individuality, wasting your life.
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Emerson did not say this.
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Detailed explanation-1: -If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. It is poverty in a rich man to despise the poor and ignorance in a wise man to despise the ignorant.
Detailed explanation-2: -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; …
Detailed explanation-3: -In his essay, “Self Reliance, ” Emerson’s sole purpose is the want for people to avoid conformity. Emerson believed that in order for a man to truly be a man, he was to follow his own conscience and “do his own thing.” Essentially, do what you believe is right instead of blindly following society.