In The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson touches on the theme of "individualism" and sees freedom as "an open process of personal fulfillment through which individuals can reshape yourself and your life." their own lives." He wanted people to make their lives their own, especially scholars because they were still connected to European life. He says: “The scholar is the man who must accommodate within himself all the capacities of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.” It places responsibility on the individual to carry out certain tasks, in this case the scholar is the scholar