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Emerson and Franklin

Melissa Triano
Professor Hicks
ENGH 2326
27, September 2012

Emerson and Franklin

Franklins Poor Richard was well known and influential, and presses the point of individual hard work and success. As Smailes expresses in an article, “The monthly poems, which usually deliver some moral point, as well as the maxims, made Poor Richard’s Almanack famous. Many well-known quotations from Franklin come in the form of his maxims. They all share the characteristic of being short, and are often playfully worded. The maxims, which cover a variety of topics, consistently advocate, for example, moderation and temperance in the consumption of food and spirits (with frequent warnings against ...

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calls for cultural and intellectual independence and combines a rejection of industrialization with a nuanced diagnosis of modern alienation. The essay exhibits Emerson’s striking aphoristic formulations, and although the figurative language is sometimes elliptical, its subversive message reverberates through American cultural life and influences thinkers and writers around the world” (Matuozzi Par 1).
Both authors categorize people into social classes. Ben Franklin helped shape the myth of the “American Dream” by creating the character, Poor Richard, And through him describing his own rise from poverty through hard work and virtue. Basically saying anyone can achieve success if they try hard enough, success meaning wealth. This idea separates the rich from the poor or middle class people. Emerson also separates classes in his writing. “Emerson begins the essay with a sketch of the social fragmentation caused by work. Equated with their occupational function, people become ...

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Added: 10/14/2012 09:07:38 PM
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