Danger Of Conformity
Emerson uses persuasive rhetoric and several literary devices such as metaphors and parallelism to convey his transcendental ideas of the dangers of conformity and the importance of being an individual in “Self-Reliance”.
Emerson writes using persuasive rhetoric to convey his logical ideas of the dangers of conformity that faces mankind and the importance of being an individual. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immoral palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.”
Emerson is stating that if a man truly wants to become an individual that he must question every orthodox belief that faces him and he must decide what he believes to be true, not what the masses think to be true. Emerson writes in this persuasive rhetoric to try and convince the reader of the potential dangers of conformity as society will harm the individuals.
“Society everywhere is a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its......
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