Monday, October 8, 2007

What I Believe (Forster, E.M. Two Cheers for Democracy)


Today we talked about on this essay. When I read this essay, Forster says that in public, we can expect people to love each other. When I read this statement, I began to think of the word “two cheers”. This word can be portrayed as two people having two cheers. Also the value of tolerance which is very much closely related to the concept of virtue. Here Forster says that love will only work with the intimacy of people. What he meant here is that the feelings that one has for each other will show how much he or she has the courage for each other. In a way, Forster is showing to the people on the concept of love and how it is correlated with life. It is very much different from the general meaning of love. Forster looks from a different point of view when he wrote this speech. Very interesting indeed!

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