Walaa Ibreek 

Professor Dania Adra

English 203

Oct13, 2015

                                                              Social Chains

My picture is about wide variety of books. Actually, I didn’t find something more related to Jean Jacques Rousseau’s text than books we read. It’s our source of knowledge that affects our mentality and drives us to many different directions. What we read is what usually written by others and as participants we memorize, understand, and apply in our daily lives. With the famous phrase “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains” I can absolutely clarify my point of view. The writer emphasizes that developed states repress the physical freedom that is our right since we exist on the land. But in reality, we are living in a world where we apply certain rules that are written after decades of experiences and have been forced on us to live properly. The same issue is for books written by experts in the field that we are examined by. People have gotten used to civil liberty” which is limited by general will” (Rousseau 115) and forgot natural liberty “which is limited only by the individual’s power (Rousseau 115). Finally, I agree with Rousseau’s statement that an individual is captivated by social chains because we are living to apply rules more than to form ours.

           

                                                         Work Cited

Rous            seau, Jean-Jacques. “The Social Contract” Shifting Narratives. Ed. Zane S