Question

Which is the best summary of Emerson’s view of solitude expressed in Society and Solitude?
a. Spending time in solitude is preferable to spending time in society, and it is ultimately more beneficial.
b. Though solitude is not necessarily valuable in and of itself, it is important to recognize its significance within a larger community.
c. Solitude can be beneficial in that it allows the mind to contemplate necessary and difficult questions.
d. Only through spending time in solitude and in deep observation of the natural world can one find happiness within society.

Answer 1

Correct answer choice is :

B) Though solitude is not necessarily valuable in and of itself, it is important to recognize its significance within a larger community.

Explanation:

Ralph Waldo Emerson adverse society, or association with other people, and solitude, or being alone. He recounts an appointment with a humorist, who wanted solitude and ignored the social community. For Emerson, silence is a mark of genius. It includes the most thorough description of one of Emerson's repetitive themes, the need for each individual to withdraw compliance and false agreement, and follow their own impulses and ideas.

Answer 2

The answer is B. Emerson’s view of solitude expressed in Society and Solitude is though solitude is not necessarily valuable in and of itself, it is important to recognize its significance within a larger community.  

 

 

EXPLANATION

 

Society and Solitude was written in 1870 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was born on May 25, 1803. He was a philosopher, lecturer, American essayist, and poet. Emerson was seen as a prescient critic of the pressures in society. He was also a champion of individualism. He was the leader of the transcendentalist organization in the mid19th century. He poured his thoughts and mindsets through medias such as essays and lectured. He gave more than 1,500 public lectures in the United States.

 

At first, Emerson believed in the religious and social beliefs of the contemporaries. Later on, he started to express the philosophy of transcendentalism. He expressed this in his essay titled “Nature”, and was published in 1836. His other famous work was The American Scholar in 1837. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Read his work and even considered it to be the "intellectual Declaration of Independence” of America.

 

Emerson wrote so many important essays and delivered a lot of lectures. He represented his core thinking in his two essays, titled First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844). Emerson wrote a lot of essays, such as Experience, The Poet, Circles, Self-Reliance, Nature, etc, and these essays were published around the mid-1830s to mid-1840s.  

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Subject: English

Class: 10-12

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