Walden Pond

just be themselves? This is the main point Thoreau and Emerson want us to take away from their essays’ Self Reliance and Walden. Conformity is a choice, and the world would be a lot better off if everybody broke free from the grasps of society and acted how they want to act. Thoreau and Emerson both demonstrate non-conformity similarly in their essays’ Self Reliance and Walden; this is shown by explaining that people should not let others shape who they are, that everyone’s ideas should be…

nature and one's feelings. In Thoreau’s essay “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience” he represents many different transcendentalism tenets throughout his works. Henry David Thoreau had a very simple view on life, after he graduated college, Harvard University, Thoreau had got a job that would be able to provide him with enough profit to meet his financial needs. He did not believe in a materialist world full of wealth. Later on in live Thoreau moved to a pond where he then began his life personally…

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 without living. To send his…

instantly with the click of a button. Back in the 1800’s, it might not have been difficult to find yourself beyond the natural world but today due to the increase of technology it is harder to transcend limits. Lastly, Transcendentalism and specifically “Walden” tried to portray the natural world as some sort of utopian society. This society unfortunately does not…

philosophy or form of spirituality. It began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church and was centered around Boston, Concord, and Massachusetts. They both were similar by respecting nature, but their beliefs were rather different from one another. Walden, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Dead Poets Society all had romantic characteristics or transcendentalist characteristics which were helpful in identifying the similarities and differences between the two.…

Based on the research I found throughout Thoreau’s writings, as well as the textbook, I have come to the conclusion that the public during this era were very materialistic, and dependent on the concept of industrializing. There was a select few people who called themselves Individualists, that believed “…modern society stifled individual judgment by making men “tools of their tools,” trapped in stultifying jobs by their obsession with acquiring wealth.” The Market Revolution was a time period of…

telegraph wires. He then finishes the collection of journals by reminding us that earth is not a dead rock but alive and full of life. 2.) Walden starts out with a man that is building his house near a pond, and is cutting down wood. He describe the beauties environment around the pond. The man then is finely ready to buy a shack and move back to his lot by the pond. This transaction reminds him of birds, some bird…

Imagery has a major impact in the all poem’s but in the poem, On The Amtrak from Boston to New York. The Speaker states certain lines to make the reader understand what is going on visually through the conflict between the white woman and the speaker. The speaker synthesizes his history and the white woman’s history. In the beginning of the poem the woman isn't generally speaking to him about her history. The speaker infers that the white woman is speaking to him because she is “across the aisle…

Henry David Thoreau is protégé of Emerson who lived honestly and did not fit in with society. Thoreau wrote Walden, Walden is about relying on yourself and being independent. Transcendentalists did their work themselves, did what they loved, and…

"Transcending the Norm, Throughout Time" Society is always about conforming. To "fit in", there is a certain way one must dress, a particular activity one must enjoy doing, and ways one must act. Society is obsessed with normality and conforming to what everyone else is doing. Transcendentalism is a movement that seeks to do what the normal society considers shocking: break the mold. This movement has been going strong since the early 1800 's, and continues in some form to this…