Thinking+as+a+Hobby

Thinking as a Hobby

In the rhetorical essay, "Thinking as a Hobby," the three statuettes represent different components in life, and they tie into the three grades of thinking. Rodin's Thinker represents a grade-one thinker. Grade-one thinkers are the few who think deeply and itellectually about everything. They think as if it were a hobby. Their thinking is like a moral system, solely based on logic. The Venus of Milo represents the natural tendencies that humans follow. It represents things such as greed, money, sex, love, etc. This connects to a grade two thinker because grade two thinking is filled with fun and excitement. The leopard represents Nature, which ties into a grade three thinker. The leopard is ready to attack the grade one thinkers because they think in a more intellectual manner, just like how everyone attacked Golding for thinking intellectually. Grade three thinking is filled with mockery, ignorance, and unconscious prejudice. The leopard, without any thought, would bash the grade one thinker for thinking without hypocripsy and contradictions. I would position the Venus of Milo and the leopard outside the shadow, because they represent the lower grades of thinking. The Rodin's Thinker would be inside the shadow because he is a grade one thinker, the ideal kind of thinker. The Thinker would be in deep thought among the shadow, thinking of topics such politics, traditions, religious systems, etc. Other topics, such as grade two and three thinkers, ignorance, contradictions, etc. would be isolated outside of the shadow.