David Henry Hwang

Extraordinarily Classical Frost His words were a magnificent work of art, Robert Lee Frost, the poet who revolutionized poetry with his seminal talent. Although widely known, Frost is still an unsolved mystery to most today. Robert Frost one of the greatest American poets of his time and honored to this day, through an unconventional life, he has become a notable writer. The reason of writing can be quite uncertain for many, but for Frost the spark that ignited his urge to write can be compared…

Growing up in the in a small town in the country of Belize I was exposed to nature tremendously. I would visit the Mayan ruin “xunantunich” and just sit at the very top and admire the greenery; this very moment was the high light of my day. Many years later that Mayan ruin is the place where I can escape and be free; xunantunich is where my love for nature began. After leaving Belize I have not found a place where I find peace and my move for nature slowly die until I was introduced to Thoreau,…

In the works, The Scarlet Letter, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Civil Disobedience”, the individual is subordinated by their society due to many restrictions present in their religion, government, and from unequal gender roles. This confinement causes the individual to take action in order to break free from these bonds through various forms of self-expression in their search for independence and to create their own identity. Though some may say that conformity of the individual was only trying to…

buttress for the most vulnerable in U.S. society, enabling them to find hope and inspiration when all else seems lost. Many aspects of transcendentalism, self-sufficiency and personal liberty, helped formulate and popularise the ‘American Dream’. Henry David Thoreau achieves to some extent the Dream. His vision was a life of simplicity, where the only labour required were for the essentials of “Food, Shelter, Clothing and Fuel” (1-A, 17). Removing superfluous demands from his life dramatically…

write about the unique nature surrounding America, the diverse culture, and the abundance of individuals with their own thoughts and emotions; but most importantly, they wrote about the use of the individuals thought over that of the government 's. Henry David Thoreau is a well-known author of the Romantic era and his writing best encompasses “his ecological consciousness, do-it-yourself independence, ethical commitment to abolitionism, and political theory of civil disobedience and peaceful…

Henry David Thoreau is a transcendentalist author who wrote the novel Walden, which is a novel explaining to the American public about when he isolated himself at Walden pond from the rest of the American society. His writings at Walden pond fits the goals of the transcendentalists mindsets because much like Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist during his time Thoreau believes in nonconformity. Meaning that Thoreau does not agree with going along with the flaws of the society in…

Yet, all these things make Chris an admirable person because he chose to follow in the footsteps of the people he looked up to regardless of what anyone else thought. Henry David Thoreau was a leader of the transcendentalist movement who encouraged people to abandon society and live in nature. Thoreau believed that in order to find true purpose, you needed to live in nature because nature held all the answers that mankind…

Rules are meant to be broken; but should “Unjust” laws be broken, if those laws target a particular group? Given that rules and laws have a similar meaning, rules are more like instructions whereas; laws are more of a system that regulates and ensure that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. While some laws are justifiable, some are clearly unfair therefore, causing controversy. Both Martin Luther King. Jr and Dwight Okita sheds light on unjust laws, that are created to…

Santiago the main character of the book ‘The Alchemist’ lives in a small village his dream was to travel the world. He love books he always had a book with him. By becoming shepherd he wanted to travel the world away from his little, small village. His parents wanted that their son should lead ordinary life like any other person in their village. They wanted that their son should become a priest. His father like all other parents try to explain him that what you are doing is not wrong but…

“To move, To breath, To fly, To float, To gain all while you can give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” Hearing the poem by famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen touched people’s lives across the continents. Andersen’s philosophy and favorite phrase is “To Travel is to Live” and over the years 1840-1858 he became a busy traveller that journeyed all over Europe meeting fellow writers, celebrities, princesses and royalties (Copenhagen,2005). Hence, readers were…