The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin has many things, but maybe more than anything else about Benjamin Franklin it explains about him being a politician, and there is no more reason to look out for an unbiased autobiography from Franklin than from any other politician. This Franklin is a persona, a conscious literary creation bestowed for our contention One of Franklin’s virtues is humbleness, and his humbleness comes out in the form of his book. His narrative is extremely informal, not only in the first part, which was seemingly addressed to his son, however in the later sections the autobiography was controlled upon four separate occasions. The informal nature of the book exhibits Franklin’s intended humility, and for Franklin, seeming to be so is nearly as significant as actually being so. For part of the function of the virtues in an individual is not only to make that particular person moral, but also to function as an example to others. This opinion of his being an illustration to other people is one of the dominant themes in his book. His life, he under...

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