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[...] It really took audacity for this man to create and undertake, for our world to advance technologically. We would suffer from not having these men who have the capacity, but also the courage and audacity to undertake. In the same way, in activism, we must know how to show audacity, thus to fight against racism in the United States, it first took a black woman named Rosa Parks to have the courage not to give up her seat to a white man on the bus to initiate a fight against racial segregation, a fight that was also led by bold and courageous men who knew how to put their voices to the service of a noble cause, such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. [...]
[...] Perhaps we would suffer from having only passive consumer citizens who are content to watch TV, the cinema, in short, to have fun without worrying about future generations. Perhaps we need young and not-so-young, and indeed, bold people like her to move the world forward. In the scientific world as well, we must know how to show audacity. Indeed, who would have thought at the beginning of the last century that Man would set foot on the moon, and yet this is what happened in July 1969. [...]
[...] The Romantics indeed wanted to propose a more lively, more dynamic theater by going against the rule of the three units, of time, of place and of action, by proposing, like Victor Hugo, a new way of handling the alexandrine. Even if the Romantics opposed the resistance of the "old school", and during the famous Battle of Hernani this confrontation took on physical proportions, it was not without interest since these playwrights, poets and novelists of the Romantic movement were able to mark the history of literature and the arts in general. Thus their audacity was beneficial to creation. [...]
[...] For example, there may be certain activities that we are afraid to do and we would gain by showing audacity to improve our lives and why not contribute to the pleasure of others. Thus, we can say that in our modern society, which is both conformist and individualist, it is good that men and women step out of their comfort zones to create, fight, and take risks, it is in this way that our world lives, transforms. I would thus tend to go in the same direction as Ionesco. Danton also said 'audacity, always audacity, even more audacity', we must not let ourselves be sclerosed by our habits. [...]
[...] We will try to see through different examples and in different artistic, scientific, cultural and economic fields how we can agree or disagree with this Ionesco quote. In the play Rhinoceros, Ionesco denounces in a way the lack of audacity, the conformism of characters who all transform into rhinoceroses. Ionesco used this allegory to denounce the way an ideology could contaminate an entire population that lacked audacity was in a kind of stupid conformism in the face of which a single character seems to detach himself. [...]
