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This 3-page paper compares and contrasts two essays by Emerson and Frank while giving special attention to what they say about ideas like: rebellion, imitation, authenticity, originality, conformity and other related concepts. There are 3 sources cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Emerson & Frank Research Compiled for
, Inc. by P. Giltman 7/2010 Please For centuries, authors, poets and essayists have written about a
number of different ideas and themes such as rebellion, imitation, authenticity and conformity. In Ralph Waldo Emersons essay, "Self Reliance" and Thomas Franks essay, "Why Johnny Cant Dissent", both writers
speak about individualism as well as conforming to societal standards. This essay will compare and contrast their respective works and outline how both Frank and Emerson differ in their ideas
of individualism. In Emersons 1841 essay, he argues that every individual possesses a unique genius that can only be revealed when that individual has the courage to trust his
or her own thoughts, attitudes, and inclinations against all public disapproval. That is why the phrase trust thyself is repeated throughout the essay. Emerson begins "Self-Reliance" by defining genius: "To
believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. Every educated man, he writes, eventually realizes
that envy is ignorance and that he must be truly himself. God has made each person unique and, by extension, given each person a unique work to do. To trust
ones own thoughts and put them into action is, in a very real sense, to hear and act on the voice of God. Emerson adds that people must seek solitude
to hear their own thoughts, because society, by its nature, coerces men to conform. He goes so far as to call society "a conspiracy against the manhood of every one
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