Emerson's Three Message Analysis

An Analysis of Three Messages from Emerson “Be yourself because everyone else is already taken.” Many people in today's society try to be someone they are not. Some people can fake it, but some people can't handle being themselves. They don't feel like they are good enough for society or if they are even worthy for being out there. There is a man who looks and critics this aspect of people and his name is Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is a man that looks at how people can stand out and be their own great individual from doing this. Feather said, “His beliefs and his idealism were strong influences on the work of his protégé Henry David Thoreau” She is saying that the most rememberable thing about emerson is that he was confident

He looks at the water, and sees the blue color of it and then hears it rush by the rocks. He then goes on to talk about how that can compare to a man. Emerson states, “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all”(Page 367) He is nothing but an eye, he doesn't actually do anything he is just eyes on the canvas. When we look at how we affect nature and what we have done for nature it is nothing. We can only watch nature and see how beautiful it is. Popejoy stated, The beauty of nature can have a profound effect upon our senses” The most that we can get from nature is the beauty, we can also get many natural resources but we mostly just look at nature and see the amazing smell and colors that are out

Humans can be compared to nature as they are the senses of nature. We are they eyes that follow the pretty things from nature. He also said that great men do not fall to society, meaning that they follow what they know to be true. He also said that great men are misunderstood, people didn't believe in Jesus’s ways but now people see him as a great man. Mckay stated, “ self-made man is anyone who attains far greater success than his original circumstances” Be the person that doesn't need to rely on others to be successful in your life