David Henry Hwang

The Boa – The Great Gatsby As I was clenching the charred piece of wood in anger at the lie that we had all been living in, the piece of wood started to glow and I was transported to a different location. This time, I was transported to in front of a great mansion on Long Island Sound. It was night and there was a magnificent party going on in the mansion. I, anticipating a great time ahead, entered the party and stood with my mouth hanging wide open. The person who owned this mansion had to…

Goodbye to the Government Henry David Thoreau was an influential philosopher, journalist, and poet who opposed the government because of all the racism and unjust actions occurring in his time. In his piece called “Civil Disobedience,” he shares his belief that there is no purpose in having the government because it is used in terrible ways and can sometimes take advantage of people and their rights. He expresses his opinion about the government by attempting to connect with his audience…

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the change to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt myself a superabundance of energy which not outlet in our quite life.” Self–Sufficiency from a man who left everything to find the superabundance that nature give him is one of the concepts express by Krakauer in his book “Into the Wild.” For instance, Krakauer’s purpose in describing Christopher McCandless is to show how McCandless disconnection with…

revolutionary is one that leads change, on the contrary, a rebel is one that elicits change. A rebel is intellectual, hard-headed, and critical of the current order of either government, society, or human nature. During the nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher, writer, abolitionist, and most notably, had conflicting theory regarding the involvement of the government in daily life. Thoreau spent the latter years of his life living in the woods of Walden Pond, criticizing…

Transcendentalism as a way of life has been studied by many scholars, throughout time. Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, believed that by simplifying their way of living they could surpass their human emotions in order to separate themselves from the negative characteristics of society. These Transcendentalists believed that living in society left them vulnerable to the negative effects of human emotions and desires. Transcendentalism is not an…

Henry David Thoreau lived in the middle of the nineteenth century as a writer. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817; Thoreau had three other siblings. A quiet child growing up, Thoreau preferred walks in the woods to childhood games. When Thoreau reached 16 years of his life, he attended Harvard College and did so well enough in his first year to earn a half-scholarship. Unfortunately, Thoreau’s family could only send one of their children to college. Therefore, since Thoreau…

you’re too much of a free thinker you’ll end up there as well. There has to be a balance between passivness and free thinking and if you have that balance your life will most likely play out how you want it to. “All good things are wild and free.” (Henry David…

Individuals are concentrated on the newest phones when it’s released or the newest upgrade of the game station. In today’s society, technology is more appreciated than nature. People have the intention of finding their happiness through technology instead of looking deeper on the inside. Frequently, people intend to forget the beauty of nature and how nature creates its life in the world for people to live in. Technology has taken the advantage of destroying nature. Additionally, people rely on…

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man” (Henry David Thoreau). Thoreau’s philosophy of transcendentalism comprised of three main ideas: Individual, Nature, and God. This quote illustrates how each individual is created for their own unique purpose, each finding their unique niche that will flood their souls with happiness. In the nonfictional book, Into the Wild (1997), author Jon Krakauer sheds light on Chris (Alexander Supertramp) McCandless’ life ending…

twenty-first century. While Transcendentalism is not a necessity to enjoy our life, they do imply many ideals that could be morphed into our daily life to better our own society. One of the main theme Transcendentalism implements is individualism. As Henry D. Thoreau, one of the founding father to transcendentalism, had said in his famous essay Walden, “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” However, living in a society that believes that a perfect city is…