Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817. His home was about twenty miles outside of Boston. Born to John and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau, he was the third of four children in his family. Helen and John were his older sister and brother; Sophia was his younger sister. Helen was five years older, and John Jr. was two years older; Sophia was two years younger than he was. He received a primary and secondary education at a public school in Concord and the private Concord…

part of his life during his last years. Thoreau, born in the early 1800s, was an advocator of chastity, similar to Tolstoy. What he was most famous for, was his reclusive years spent meditating and keeping a journal at Walden pond where he built himself a cabin and lived. Walden Pond was an area on the property of Ralph Waldo Emerson, an author also mentioned in the book, and Waldo allowed Thoreau to build his home there. McCandless, too, spent time alone while he camped out in Alaska as well as…

There are many pieces of literature and media that embody the idea of transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism. In this quarter, we have read Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. We have also watched the films Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Fight Club, all of which refers to transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism in some way or another. Transcendentalism is the belief that knowledge of reality is derived…

nearly every American seems to be devoting more of their time working hard simply to be able to pay off for things they don’t really need. Currently tiny house evolution is galvanized by numerous factors that led David to embrace dwelling at the Walden Pond. The evolution of tiny houses began with allegations that big…

he studied Greek, Latin, and German. He graduated from college in 1837. Thoreau began writing nature poetry in the 1840s with poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a guide and friend. In 1845 he started his famous two-year stay on Walden Pond, which he wrote about in his master work, Walden. He was thirty-two years-old when he wrote Resistance to Civil…

abolitionist and naturalist. He was born on Concord, Massachusetts to an English family in July 12, 1817and educated at Harvard University. Thoreau explored individualism through nature, more popularly in Walden and Civil Disobedience. Walden was initially an experiment on self-reliance, when he went to Walden Pond and lived in a small house without the disturbance of society. Later, he put his experiment into words and concluded that we waste our life looking for wealth and society. He was…

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Thoreau consistently emphasizes the value of a transcendent life. The transcendent life as described by Thoreau, is a life that is lived with purpose, individuality, simplicity and one that is connected with the beauty of nature. Given this, it is reasonable to conclude that if Thoreau were alive today he would be dissatisfied with how conformist, institutionalized, and materialistic society has become. Thoreau believed that it was critically important to live…

By implementing the tenets of Transcendentalism of nature, individualism, solitude and manual labor, can I transform my lifestyle to embody a sense of simplicity separate from the city like Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond? If I were to follow the tenets of nature, individualism, solitude and manual labor, then I would most likely find myself enjoying the fresh air, sunlight, in addition to perhaps taking these saunters every once in awhile even after the project to separate myself from anxiety.…

Transcendentalism is described a person who finds satisfaction in solitude and nature. It was a nineteenth century movement in which mean people joined. In the book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is a transcendentalist, from the modern age, which means he enjoys the simplicity of life and deliberate living or living life with intentions. McCandless goes into the wild with the aspiration of finding himself through nature. In the eyes of a transcendentalist, they believe that…

In Allegra Goodman’s short story “La Vita Nuova”, we are presented with a character that possess several traits. Amanda, the story’s protagonist undergoes change as she develops as a character. Amanda went from being an emotionally-dead victim of a hurtful breakup to someone who can feel again. In the beginning of the story, Amanda is perceived as a depressed character. She got dumped by her fiancé shortly before their wedding. Her fiancé would say that she was a “very dark person" or was "like…