The theme of individualism
Transcendentalists believed that people are pure as individuals, but once they start letting society influence them, they can become corrupted. Emerson, in Self-Reliance, reinforces this thought and encourages people to be and guide themselves without letting society corrupt them.
Answer:
I believe the safest choice is letter A. the failure of language to convey the truth of experience.
Explanation:
We might be, at first, tempted to choose letter C concerning labels imposed by men that restrict a woman's life. After all, there is much of feminism in Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"'s narrator, Addie Bundren. However, the passage we are analyzing here and the context which surrounds it show that<u> Addie's indeed discussing the inadequacy of words to describe experiences. </u>
She sees language as something invented, something built with the purpose of explaining an experience, a feeling. However, she does not think words are effective. Motherhood is only a word, a group of letters and sounds that tries to summarize what the experience of being a mother is. But the experience in itself is much fuller, much richer than the idea that word can ever convey. The same happens to other words, feelings, experiences. As Addie says, <em>"That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had fear; pride, who never had the pride."</em>
I believe it is safe, then, to choose letter A. the failure of language to convey the truth of experience.
Answer:
A: Cause/Effect organization
Explanation:
In the passage, you can see one thing slowly leads to another: Oedipus accidentally kills his father, and because of that Jocasta kills herself, leaving Oedipus to resign from the throne. If Oedipus had not killed his father, then Jocasta wouldn't have killed herself, and he wouldn't have left the throne.
