“Hooray for the Underdog!”

The United States prides itself on being a land of freedom and opportunity. Individuals travel to the United States in hopes to utilize every advantage that life in America will bring. In Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville divulges into his interpretations of the inner workings of the United States and what truly makes it so unique from its European counterparts.

After the geographical location in context of America is explored, Tocqueville begins his exploration of the origins of Anglo-American people in society.

Toqueville distinctly separated the people into three races: most intelligent, attractive and man in power and enjoyment is the European or white men, other pre-eminent and inferior group are the Negro and Indians. The European people tortured and enslaved other races. Negros where suffering as a slave as their grand generations were where made slave, and Indians suffered as Europeans ruled over them by their well-equipped technology. There was nothing common between Negro and Indian other than both was the victim and inferior group of people ruled by White People. In way of thinking both the group was different from eachother. Toquevillen predicts the future of this group. The Whites were powerful and intelligent. They had desire of getting everything they like, if they did not get

And this belief is what motivated his deep interest in America, his visit persuaded him that America had achieved in a peaceful and natural way almost complete equality of conditions. He said if we understand America, we could not only understand what democracy means, but in a way even take a look into the world’s future. He wrote, “ I confess, that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress.” (Democracy in America Volume I) He thought he saw the outlines of a new kind of society, which would slowly become that kind of society for the rest of the world. He saw at first hand democratized society. America became somewhat apprehensive of what they thought. America achieved its independence and many of the French supported America. Many Frenchmen learned their lesson when they came here and then they went back and began. Tocqueville saw the industrial revolution the enlightenment, and the

Alexis de Tocqueville delivers a unique observation and perspective on the development of American identity. As a distinguished aristocratic Frenchman, Tocqueville does not use this book as an argument for anything, but rather he uses it as an opportunity to inspect American character and its evolving identity. He treats democracy in the United States comprehensively in order to relate it to Americas history, national life, and perspectives toward freedom. Throughout this novel, Tocqueville targets two important areas of subject. First, he examines the structure of government and the institutions that help to maintain freedom. Secondly, he focuses

Tocqueville describes the Negro and the Indian as opposites with seemingly nothing similar except for their misfortunes in America. In a deeper analysis, they are a metaphor for democracy and aristocracy respectively. In expansion to this metaphor of the Negro as democracy and the Indian as aristocracy, Tocqueville recounts a story of an interaction between a young European child, a Native American woman, and a Negro woman that seems to reveal more about democracy in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French philosopher who came to united states in 1831 to study about innovative prisons but later he got interested in studying about human behavior and sociology. After two years when he went back to his country he wrote two books about the democracy of America in which he wrote about society and government. and three races in the united states. When he came to united states he was

In the nineteenth century, when the influences of a recent democratic society began to spread among the Americans, the equality of gender, the role of women, and the family began to change into an individualistic culture. In the United States, democracy opens up new beliefs on equality among the role of gender. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argues on how Americans were able to see the roles of gender more equally important than the Europeans. The Americans recognize the roles of the women and men important in being part as a contribution in the community. Each of the gender contains the same understanding that makes the American gender undetectable. For example, Tocqueville notice, in the United States, that the American

Tocqueville chapters one through eight summarize the American Democracy motif as understood by Tocqueville. The concept of equality, governmental structuralization and the power of the press. Tocqueville affirmed the notion that in times of equality people have the tendency to look for advantages. Tocqueville writes, "Such men will freely admit the general principle that the power of the state should not interfere in private affairs, but as an exception, each one of them wants the state to help in the special matter with which he is preoccupied, and he wants to lead government on to take action in his domain, though he would like to restrict it in every other direction." This quote epitomizes the very reality of our Democracy at present. When

Tocqueville goes on to write “And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?” This statement is the exact root of the elite’s problems. If the people believed themselves to be their own masters, the elite would have no chance of any control on the working class. The birth of the United States and its democracy was a far cry from the chains that England had placed on them. People could now have a say in

In this paragraph, I am going to discuss De Tocqueville’s thoughts and views on gender in America. As I stated above, De Tocqueville wrote his essay and formed his opinions 150 years before Devor in a country that was much different. For example, when he says “Americans do not think that man and women have either the duty or the

All the questioning of the belief of God was then. Tocqueville use a juxtaposition with the democracy and aristocracy. A aristocrat is a person like a preacher or a leader in the community that thinks they are better than anyone else because they have property or a bigger role in the town then they do. A democracy is a government member part of the democrat party which means they have the freedom of there religion and they can live there life like they want to. They have the freedom to participate in the government and to vote. For an aristocrat to do such a thing is a good example of a juxtaposition. You would not think that a preacher would do something in that nature like preach about something that he or she should not do and turn around and do it himself. For a public leader to promise something and it never happen for a long period of time. Like for example in the novel The Scarlet Letter Dimmesdale was a preacher and look at all the sin he committed. Its a juxtaposition to good and bad. Demmesdale could preach about how sin is not to committee bout in reality he was committing it as well. Nathaniel Hawthorne use juxtaposition a lot in Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. Its goes to show you how in any story, book, novel, or article they can be looked over and you realize it at the end of the

Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America in 1835 and examined the democratic revolution; he references to American Exceptionalism and the five characteristics that make America “Exceptional”. Similarly, the 1950s in America was recognized for its highs and lows. Even with the economy was booming, it was known as an era of great conflict (History.com Staff). In the 1950s, Tocqueville’s five characteristics of American Exceptionalism are invalidated; liberty was not attainable due to the Cold War policies like McCarthyism, racism, such as the massive resistance of integration, disproved egalitarianism, conformity, in the suburbs and women’s lives, throughout this decade refuted individualism, populism was belittled with the

Tocqueville’s Democracy in America arose out of the desire to understand the underlying reasons behind the difference between French and American democracies. While both societies have had moved towards democracy, New England, which Tocqueville defines as America, seems to be much more successful in organising a stable democratic society. As such, Democracy in America was written with the motive of mapping out how American society was

Everyone has either been bullied or have been the bully, but the ones who are the bully don’t see what they’re really doing until it’s too late.