In England during the 19th century,capatliasm was rising creating a division between different economic classes. Which created an economic greed and competition to get more money Writers like William Hazlitt, startically mock how money driven people are and it isn’t , and other rhetorical devices to prove how manipulative their mindset was,and how their energy was being put into the wrong desires And in Halzits satircal essay named , “On the Want of money”,Hazlitt uses parallelism, a list of sarcastic statements, and word choice, in order to develops his positions that money will never be enough. In his, “On the Want of Money”, Hazlitt utliziese parallelism to prove to the England society that money will never be enough. In his essay, he …show more content…
In the first paragraph of his essay, he uses words like, “neglected, irksome, deprived.” And all these words have a negative connotation and create a very dark and depressing tone. Hazlitt does this to be reflective of his audience, and he is starically embodying how depressing this goal of more money and higher status can get. by using word choice with negative connotations, in which he also proves that money won’t ever be enough. Later on, in his essay, he uses words with the opposite connotation like “enthusiasm and extravagance”; when he is talking about his youth of years. And this is very sarcastic because he talks about how as you get older and your properties change, you lose your joy and start becoming manipulated and start to get modled by society and their norms. While tlkaing about youth, he is speaking of the positive mindsets younger people have and implying that adults shoudla lso ahve these youthful mindsets.He coampres the two tones of adulthood and youthood to highlight the joy of not having to worry bout how much mor emoeny you could be getting. And once again, he does this all to prove that the money will never be enough. To wrap things up , Halzit uses word choice to prove to the his audience that money will never be