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Shin, Eunice Period 06 01/08/02 Carlyle: Work Carlyle uses repetition, morals, and Biblical allusions to point his arguments towards philosophers, stressing the salutary benefits of work, and his very positive attitude of fending of idleness with the "weapon;" he denounces the rubble of human nature, praising work and conformity through his use of imagery. Innate man is portrayed as the chaotic jungles of the world, dangerously crouching toward the desert insanity. Though in our present day, man is given his individualism, Carlyle describes it as a curse. It is pure "torment" which leads to worse unquenchable thirst to be satisfied. Only by the rich calling of society will man escape his sorrows and despair. Human nature was not built to work for itself; aspirations for its own personal satisfaction. On the contrary, Carlyle sees the selfish individual "draining off the sour festering water" into his own corrupted soul. The idea of materialistic and fortuitous gain...

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