selfreliance实用教案

1、Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)第1页/共11页第一页，共12页。第2页/共11页第二页，共12页。In his essay Self-Reliance, there exist three parts of the main ideas: 1. Criticizing traditional customs and stubborn perspective rooted in the society and humans minds 2. Eulogizing the youth 3. Ways to be self-reliant第3页/共11页第三页，共12页

2、。1. Criticizing traditional customs and stubborn perspective rooted in the society and humans minds To begin the essay, Emerson shows us such a society, where people speak not what they but man thought. Thats to say, people think as others think, do as others do. In Emersons eyes, the society lacks

3、self-reliance and creation, which drive the world forward. People complain that they always disturbed by so called scared and traditional customs. Thats funny. “What have I to do with the sacredneof traditions, if I live wholly from within?” Thats true. If a person lives with self-reliance, he wont

4、be disturbed by so called traditions. Whoso would be a man must be a non conformist. But the cruelneexisting in the society is that for nonconformity, the world whips you its displeasure. 第4页/共11页第四页，共12页。1. Criticizing traditional customs and stubborn perspective rooted in the society and humans mi

5、nds Not only the society Emerson criticizes but also some men who lose self-reliance and self-confidence. Those men find no worth in himself even after they built a tower or sculptured a marble god and feel poor when stand before those things created by themselves. In fact, those are all theirs. “Th

6、e picture waits for my verdict: it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claims to praise.”第5页/共11页第五页，共12页。2. Eulogizing the youth Emerson points, “the man and women who shall renovate life and our society state are most from those who posses new ideas and self-reliance”. And truly, it deman

7、ds something godlike in them who have cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaker. Only those youth with independent spirit can eliminate the rooted traditional and stubborn customs and regulations to turn the society into a better one. 第6页/共11页第六页，共12页。

8、3. Ways to be self-reliant Emerson points out, in his latter part of his essay, that only common youth are not enough to create a new society. What is needed is the youth endowed with self-reliance. Whoso would be a man must be a non conformist. Emerson several times emphasizes this necessarily of b

9、eing a non conformist. Meanwhile, he presents several ways in the essay of being self-reliant. First, a person ought to go upright and speaks to truth in all ways. Second, trust your self. Third, insist yourself; never imitate.第7页/共11页第七页，共12页。 Through the whole essay, Emerson makes us believe: with

10、 the exercise of self-reliance, new powers shall appear. Just as he says in the end of his essay: It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their pr

11、operty; in their speculative views.第8页/共11页第八页，共12页。 Although essays arent as popular as when Emerson was alive in the mid-1800s, this essay has become one of the authors most notable achievements. Emersons philosophy as expressed in Self-Reliance embraced a combination of non-conformity to social trends. Also a great believer in the light within, Emerson gives continual nods to a divine Providence while holding fast to mans inherent goodness, and the necessity of holding to ones own convictions despite the inclinations and p