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Comparing Bread And Nourishing Corn

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Society conflicts with the goals of individuals and harsh diction emphasizes the already negatively connotated statements in saying, “...envy is ignorance…” and “...imitation is suicide…” (Emerson 2-3). Emerson employs parallelism in order to redefine society and conformists as the enemy. In addition to parallel structures, he personifies society as a “conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members” nevertheless making non-individualism the enemy. Furthermore, Emerson juxtaposes the metaphors of “bread” and “nourishing corn” to represent the differences between individuals and society. Bread represents the processed and unnaturalness of society and the nourishing corn represents the naturalness of individualism to tie it all back

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