David Henry Hwang

In Life dream are supposed to be pursued at any cost. Dreams help the world progress. Without dreams there would be no point in individuality. Transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson believed in the fact that every person have self worth. In the movie Dead Poet Society the setting takes place at a private all boy school called Welton Academy. At school academics are a priority and life is strict. The students are pushed to become what society want them to become.…

civil disobedience in order to impact the free society that we live in today. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact a free society. Without civil disobedience, it would have been almost impossible to make change in our society. In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes as a way to show his opposition to slavery. Thoreau was intentionally breaking the law without any violence. It was illegal not pay taxes. It is still illegal now and one can be sent to jail if they don’t pay…

in the importance to speak your mind and follow your conscious. He believed you should stay true to yourself no matter what consequence or how anyone feels about it. In the play The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Henry Thoreau's personality was really bold. I had never read about a character who was so out-spoken and did exactly what he wanted. One of the scene's that stood out to me the most was when I learned he went to jail because he refused to support the…

then go back home to whichever life you may have. Then continue this cycle, again, and again, and again. Compared to some people, this cycle is not that bad. If you have an exciting life that is. But whether the life is good or bad, according to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, that is not the proper way to live. Thoreau gives off the message that mankind should stop rushing their lives with unnecessary things, and slow down so they can know what true happiness and peace is, before they die…

Thoreau and His Motives Henry David Thoreau is a tremendously complex man to understand. Thoreau was a Harvard graduate and an abolitionist.This man wrote “Civil Disobedience” and had many reasons for doing so. Some of his thoughts given throughout the essay are, he did not like the way the government was run, the voting system, he did not respect some of the reasons he was taxed, he also wanted the readers to learn how to be more outspoken against the government, and lastly he wanted to…

own identity. Into the Wild is a non fiction book by Jon Krakauer about Christopher McCandless and his journey as he discovered who he was, independently from his family. For the majority of his youth Chris idolized non-conformist authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, and Leo Tolstoy who influenced his development and beliefs. When Chris begins his solo voyage, he utilizes their thoughts to guide him, and he discovered who he was aside from those authors he learned from. The…

The increased sense of conflict between the people and the society in which they lived in was what marked the development into the 19th century. When a sense of community and togetherness is deteriorating, the affirmation of the people inclines and when people become expected to exist outside their positions in society, a conflict between the individual and society as a whole arises; a reason of this newfound concept of individuality. The idea of having a “pecking order” and definitive social…

happiness. Society bombards individuals with messages and commercials with the illusion that more is better. New cars, bigger homes and the newest technology becomes to appear as a necessity versus a desire. In Where I Lived and What I Lived for Henry David Thoreau states that society must simplify, “instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one” (Thoreau 17). Thoreau’s quote implies that to reach true happiness an individual must focus on the simple necessities; food, shelter…

Wilderness. What defines wilderness? Wilderness is described as an uninhabited or inhospitable region somewhere. Some would say that the closest thing you can get to wilderness is Wyoming. Most people would describe wilderness as a place they’ve never been before and is unchartered territory for them. For example, a farmer who has worked the land all his life and has only been in one small town might consider big cities like New York or Los Angeles a place of wilderness. That could go both then…

Because of his views of nature, among other things, people of today’s century see Thoreau as a transcendentalist. The fact that Henry surpasses thoughts of physical possessions, or the first box, leaves space in his mind for the essential questions. In Walden (one of his more famous texts), Thoreau speaks about how he, “...went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…