Essay on Samuel Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
The vanity of human wishes is s poem by Samuel Johnson that features the futile life of human beings that is self-centered. There is a general hunger within a human being to prosper and be famous. Fame and material gain are the two main pursuits of human beings. People have become so much obsessed with material things that they do not realize the danger they expose themselves to. It is unfortunate that people have to die young or even without having to accomplish their greatest dreams simply because they were after things that could not satisfy them. Johnson notes that material ...
