ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Binary Opposition, Slave Narrative, 6 Years
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Know the difference between active voice & passive voice. Iamb: a unit that is an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. Emerson is rejected the hierarchal arrangement where the weak depend on the strong. Emerson says he had to teach himself to free himself before he could work in teaching his people. Self-reliance implied hard work for emerson and douglass. Its not every man for himself, whatever i please or whatever i want to do, i"ll do for myself, self-reliance is working hard for something for the good of everyone. Douglass models a form of self-government, he is very controlled, he is weighed down by responsibility. For douglass its not about total freedom but freedom with limits. Liberal thought: reason is universal and desire is private, emerson thinks we need to find something in between both. Emerson: i think therefore, i am descartes his allusion to descartes ironically undermines itself.
