To become a man would mean that we must mature from being a child, and maturing is a type of conforming but it all depends on how you go about it. Emerson uses the metaphor “Corpse of a memory” throughout the essay, and this metaphor is important in this essay. To break this down it would mean someone who is afraid of contradiction. However, it is important as we mature to reevaluate our ideas and admit if they are faulty as he does when he mentions Joseph “Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.” " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.” What Emerson is trying to say here is that it is better to be true to your evil nature than it is to conform or behave correctly because society deems your true nature as evil. Good and evil are in the eye of the beholder, and both sides of a conflict believe that they are good and the other side is evil. To bring a real-world example into this take radical Islam and the American
To become a man would mean that we must mature from being a child, and maturing is a type of conforming but it all depends on how you go about it. Emerson uses the metaphor “Corpse of a memory” throughout the essay, and this metaphor is important in this essay. To break this down it would mean someone who is afraid of contradiction. However, it is important as we mature to reevaluate our ideas and admit if they are faulty as he does when he mentions Joseph “Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.” " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.” What Emerson is trying to say here is that it is better to be true to your evil nature than it is to conform or behave correctly because society deems your true nature as evil. Good and evil are in the eye of the beholder, and both sides of a conflict believe that they are good and the other side is evil. To bring a real-world example into this take radical Islam and the American