Flaws are OK!

I agree with what T. Ahmed said about perfection. Especially when she talks about how it is almost impossible to be perfect for a human being. This can also be seen in the biography when he states that “Order, too, with regard to places for things, papers, etc., I found extremely difficult to acquire. I had not been early accustomed to it, and, having an exceeding good memory, I was not so sensible of the inconvenience attending want of method” (Franklin, Chapter9), this shows that even though he tried to perfect himself, but realized he wasn’t able to and found it difficult the more he tried. He tried so hard and wasn’t able to perfect himself and he concluded that every man has a fault and no one in this world is perfect. He admits that a person should have faults in him otherwise people will be jealous and hate him for his perfection and that is seen when he states that, “a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself” (Franklin, Chapter 9), he clearly says that a person of perfection is definitely going to be hated by society and that it is almost necessary for a person so have faults in himself to be so called “normal” in society. This supports T. Ahmed’s idea because she basically says that you can find happiness in your flaws and this idea correlates with the idea of having flaws and that being “normal” for society.

 

 

One thought on “Flaws are OK!”

  1. What’s good:

    I think you’re responding to Tas, and you build on by pointing out another moment in Franklin that applies.

    Concern:

    I think you might be either rushing or pushing your reading of Franklin to fit with Tas’s comment. Saying that it’s good to have flaws so others wont’ be jealous of you isn’t the same thing as saying that flaws have some intrinsic good or that it’s in learning to accept our flaws that we have happiness. Franklin seems to be suggesting more like don’t be too perfect even if it is who you can be b/c other people don’t like that. In a sense he is saying that normal wins out over perfection (something to think about with Frankenstein who was in fact stronger and smarter and nobler–in physical capacity he was more perfect– than many humans, but he wasn’t normal).

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