Comparison of "Citizen Ben" to "The American Scholar"

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by a lot of people through both his self-aware sarcasm and his sincerity. We can directly connect the way he undertook the balance of wealth, virtues and values, and a quest of reputation to his writings. A disciplined and ironic man, Franklin loved to make lists of principles for his tradesmen as well as himself. As a young man, he made a list of values and virtues that could define his life. By these, we are able to see some of the influences he left on the landscape of American literature and history. Throughout his whole life, he compromised on many matters but not over his aversion to tyranny. He put his many talents to work on this issue by writing or by doing. To protect against arbitrary power and tyranny, he believed in expressing his ideas and thoughts feely with no distractions and barriers. With his writings he found a way to freely express many of his thoughts and beliefs. Some could say these were the foundations of a free press in America. Franklin also found a ...

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