Money In William Hazlitt's The Want Of Money

He compares the never-ending anguish of wanting money to having to work a low-level job or never being with the person you want. Through his example, Hazlitt conveys the message that money is controlling by compelling you to do things you don't want to, and the people who desire wealth will do anything to get it, even things that bring them

His masculinity grants him a personal sense of power, but that had been taken from him. Continuously he is abused and stripped from a satisfaction of feeling socially equal to others. This is a cause of his social economic status, which only allows him to clothe himself with old stained garments. For this reason, he is perceived to be less than a human in the eyes of individuals who play an important role to society. Since the Underground Man’s character has been described as socially isolated since the beginning of the book, his difficulties expressing himself to other individuals was the commencement of a deep angry desire to have some authority over the officer.

In the passage The Want of Money by William Hazlitt, he describes the hardship that money comes with. He adequately reveals his purpose by using anaphora, pathos, and syntax. By using those rhetorical terms his is able to effectively convey to the reader that nothing good ever comes out of the extreme want of money. Throughout The Want of Money, Hazlitt uses anaphora to repeat the same phrases and words to show the importance of what he saying and emphasize his personal opinion to the reader. One example is when he states “To be in want of it, is to pass through life with little credit or pleasure; it is to to live out of the world”.

For example, imagine yourself struggling with economic problems and you just can’t seem to find a way out. Consequently, you can’t manage to pay for essentials such as food and education whether its supplies or books for your classes. In effect, the circumstance drives you to work harder in what you do to become better and makes you appreciative of the blessings you have. Your sorrows turn into a sense of content feeling in which you have changed your negatives into something positively

We think of ourselves all the time, and even if we think we are putting others first most of the time we really aren’t. People in general are selfish for their own well-being. People typically strive for their goals, dreams, and views of what success is. Nobody wants to miss out on opportunity to get what they want in life, so the big question is “Why possibly sacrifice your opportunity for the sake of another person?” You only live one life so your best to go ahead and take your shot at opportunity. The general mindset of most people is why focus on other’s interest when I already have mine to focus on in this

In addition, a prince that strays from generosity will be regarded as a miser. While stinginess might lead to shame, generosity will lead to contempt. Therefore, a prince should avoid being benevolent and, instead, treat his subjects with a reluctance to assist. As a parsimonious leader, a prince will have plenty of money for defending his state and embarking on tasks that will not burden his people. He will be perceived as generous to those he does not take from, the majority, and perceived as miserly to he does not take from, the few.

Here the workers work even though their body hurts, they have pain they have to work because they are powerless “the powerful tend to believe they deserve the success they have had and that the powerless have bought their problems on themselves” (Holmes 44). Holmes here explains that the authorities believe they deserve this to control the workers and the problems these workers are facing with the labor is their own fault. Another article that deals with this topic is Economy and Exchange with article “The Original Affluent Society” by Marshall Sahlins, a quote from there relates to the workers in the book "must work much harder in order to live than tillers and breeders" (Sahlins 13). Here you can see in the book that the migrant workers have to work in order to live but they work harder than those who have citizenship and make less money. “We have to migrate to survive.

In the end, Piff tries to prove why the audience should care about his studies. He shares with the audience that the American Dream is unattainable because people are never satisfied with their money or morals. This appeals to the audience because Piff is relating his explanation to them. If a person is rich, they are mean, and if they are virtuous, they are poor. Americans never seem to be fulfilled, and they end up spending their lives trying to fill an endless desire.

Using parallel structure, depressive tone, and sarcasm, Hazlitt convey the idea that money is the necessary ingredient of a prosperous and pleasing life in the context of 19th century British society. To Hazlitt, money is not “the root of all evil”, but the lack of money is. Being in “want of money” will lead to a pathetic life and alienate one from the

Today’s society is centered around public reputation and personal affluence. This ideology is also reflected in the pre-twentieth century era, through the short passage, “On the Want of Money,” by William Hazlitt. Hazlitt uses various literary devices throughout his passage to describe his feelings towards the lack of money. He uses varied sentence structure and voice language, and a hatred tone to emphasize his displeasure towards the lack of money and society’s ridicule on impoverished people. Hazlitt uses varied sentence structure and voice language (patterns) to highlight his despise towards the lack of money.

Seeing how much people can struggle financially and how much its affects their lives puts things in a different perspective for myself, taking things for granted almost never ends well. Seeing one family that had a fair amount of financial security, yet lose it all due to a job loss was humbling, showing me how truly temporary all of these things are. I also find it interesting to see the dynamic of circumstances, situations and problems that all of these families dealt with and how they all dealt with a few similar and different things in comparison to one another. As well as seeing how each family, and the members of these families, dealt with each one of these issues showed me just how much one’s financial situation can change their perspective and beliefs. Most of all, I find the varying backgrounds of each family to be of greatest interest; I see each family and I see how each one fell to this situation, and I wonder how can all of these people have the same problem through so many different ways and how each of them plans to deal with it in turn (Neumann & Mucciolo, 2012).