In this exercise, there will be an elaborate comparison of three works by different authors. The comparison will entail the similarities of the works as well as their differences. A conclusion will be made after the analysis of the work to determine the results of the evaluation and their relevance in the study. The works entail Emerson’s Circles, William’s Clotel and Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.
Emerson elaborates on the difference between understanding and the reasoning, in addition accounts for both spiritual and ordinary perspectives. Natural world can be realized via understanding by the ability of the intelligence permitting one to evaluate, distinguish and grade. Conversely, reason overrides understanding because it is the sensitive component of the soul that cannot be separated from the divine core (Emerson p 108). The Circle emphasizes on the fact that whatever ends had a beginning. Internally, it exposes that the world’s processes have to continue no matter what happens to an individual. According to Circles, one can be right to quote that the world misses no individual at death since there are others who continue their processes normally. Emerson feels that everything in life operates in an infinite circle and the centre of every circle is similar. Understanding is incomplete without reasoning and it is the reasoning that sensitizes people much about the world. Every individual must acquire divinity since it is the centre of reasoning circle. Logic is inadequate and this is due to the reason that people try to imagine the centre without understanding that it exists in all places. God is everything and it is also in everything, God is both inspirational and immanent. Correct involvement of reason and understanding is the only way of obtaining religion and God.
Hope Leslie depicts early American life and celebrates the position of women in developing the nation. This boundary romance defies the conventional perception of Indians, deals with inter racial matrimony and inter cultural relationship, and argues for women and their actual positions in history. At the centre of the story are two friends. Hope Leslie, a determined intellectual in an exploitive Puritan community, advocates for justice for the Indians and insists the freedom of women. Magawisca, the zealous daughter of Pequot chief, dares her father’s rage to rescue a white man and endangers her liberty to join up Hope with her long-lost sister. Amply plotted, with remarkable characters, Hope Leslie is a loaded, convincing, deeply fulfilling novel.
William’s Clotel is a sensational novel that depicts on the reality in real scenarios between the slaves and their owners. Clotel, a slave gives in to her owner who falls in love with her. She is impregnated and the owner promise to marry her. Nonetheless, the owner sells her instead. Clotel later escape from her new owner, disguise herself as a white man in order to rescue her daughter, Mary from slavery. The novel depicts mainly on democracy and they strive to break from bondage of oppression by the superior powers above individuals considered as subjects.
The three scenarios depicted in this exercise are similar in a way since they tend to elaborate specific issues considered critical by the authors. In the first instance, Emerson bases his work mainly on an in depth analysis that requires criticality in argument and rationality in judgment. Emerson elaborates on reasoning and understanding but obeys one fact that God is the apex in all situations of the world. Sedgwick is also unique in her reasoning through her Hope Leslie where everything is kept straight. There is intercultural conflict between the races coexisting in America. Hope Leslie emphasizes on the women’s dignity against their plight in the society. Similarly, Clotel emphasizes on the real nature of the slave owner and exposes their deeds to their slaves. Since the slaves are also human beings, at timer they may forcefully demand justice and perform vengeance deeds such as escape and rescue as Clotel does.
Emerson’s Circles is different from Clotel and Hope Leslie because, the circles deals with analysis of general aspects that engage human are conscience and God. Clotel and Hope Leslie are quite similar since they demonstrate the desire for freedom and equality amongst the female in the male dominated society.
Conclusion
The three scenarios outlined and elaborated in this case are similar in particular ways. As expected, the details of the three series are also different in a number of ways as outlined above but more significantly they have outstanding themes that are of equal essence in the society.
Work Cited
Emerson Ralph. Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays Both Series, Nature, May-Day and
Other Pieces. New York: MobileReference, 2009
