Ben Franklin and Emerson were both similar in many things regarding their writing and lifestyles. Ben Franklin made a set of virtues that he followed, to better himself. Although Emerson did not have a set of virtues to follow, his life was different than most people in that time, and he also wrote about nature, and that people should be fortunate and enjoy life while you can.
Personally, I enjoyed reading both of their works. However, I enjoyed Ben Franklin's writing a lot more than Emerson's. I think part of that reason has to do with the fact that we had to do a project regarding Ben Franklin and his virtues, which helped to better our lives for a week. Also, because I am more familiar with Ben Franklin, I feel that I just enjoy and understand Franklin and his writing a lot more.
Emerson's writing was interesting to read, as is anything new that I read. I did enjoy reading Emerson's Nature because it was something new, but had to deal with nature, which is something I just enjoy in general. Emerson had a lot of good points about nature and mankind in general that I agreed with. Although I think it is difficult at this point to figure out all of the similarities between the two, the main thing I noticed was that they both wanted a better life for themselves and others in society.
One thing that I think is cool is that Emerson's middle name is Waldo. I thought of Mrs. Williams when I hear waldo because she always freaks out about it. However, I find that that is kind of a peculiar middle name, however, that is probably what many people's middle names were back then. I just think it would be weird to have the middle name Waldo.
So, Emerson and Ben Franklin had similar views of life, so they put those views into their writing and I was able to compare them in a way.
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