Much Madness Is Divinest Sense By Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was an advocate for odd things of the world. She was the kind of person who spoke away from the norm of society. She herself was a person who did not follow the customs of her time; she was a female poet in an age where women were considered nothing more than objects of motherhood. Emily spoke her mind where no one would listen -- on scrap pieces of paper. Through her frustration with the mankind of her day she created some of Literature’s greatest poetry. Dickinson’s work “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense--” explores her hate for the society of her time and how much her thoughts differed from those of others during her era. “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense--” digs deeply into the ideas that societal norms can become boring for

Take Galileo for example, he saw the moons of Jupiter with his fancy telescope that he modified from a friend’s version. He saw the moons and he realised that the Earth was in fact, not the center of the universe, but that the Sun was only the center of our solar system. The freaking Church put him in jail because they did not agree with his facts and science and awesome telescope. The lines “ ’Tis the Majority in this, as all, prevail -” (Dickinson Lines 4 and 5) describe how the majority it the one that prevails in life, the superior power, the ones who think they can tell you what to do, what is right and what is not. The majority has been cruel, and still is cruel to all those with great minds and wonderful ideas that may be just beyond the human reach of knowledge right now; the majority is the voice that tells you that you are not allowed to do something because it is not what is done. In the

She has a brilliant mind, and is terrific at what she does, but because society says neigh, she cannot contribute to the case unlike the men she works with. This was the case all throughout history, but a lot around the world wars when women were being forced to work out of the home because their husbands were off fighting in the war. In the middle ages particularly intelligent individuals (usually peasant women) would be burned or drowned for being suspected of witchcraft. Oh look! More times in history where intelligent women were punished just for being a little more clever than