The two authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, are similar in many ways. The first example would be their love towards the nature, and their surroundings. Another example would be their outlook towards government, although their opinion are more important than the others. And the third example, they both were non-conformists, and believed in a lay back life-style. The first reason, and people are very clear with both of the author's work, that was to be their love of nature. Both of them, Emerson and Thoreau lived in forested areas, and spent their time outside. Thoreau whereas in friendship, studied nature and Emerson believed that each individual had a glow of religious studies, and that people should look for truths in nature. Emerson lived on Walden pond, and as well as Thoreau also lived there for a short period of time. And they both got a same book as well as same content in them and both of them loved nature lot At the same time Both Emerson and Thoreau had different views about the government system, and both were mostly same in opinion and both wanted a change in the condition of their government and to improve. In Thoreau's Civil Disobedience he almost encourages people to act against the government, until conditions change. Thoreau, also believed that the government shouldn't be getting into everything, and that it should just let people be in its place of interfere. Emerson's opinions on government was very much passive then Thoreau's who, like said before seemed to want people to stand against the government, he believed that there is so much that the government should be able to do because they shouldn't control people over their lives, but at the same time they shouldn't be powerless eithe... ... middle of paper ... ...ner fruits cannot be plucked by them". It shows that people they don't work for them self but instead they work for those people who controls their life and make their life harder for the benefits of others. In conclusion, both Emerson and Thoreau have similar thinking about nature and human and they both believes that meaning of life can be found through our own thoughts and reaction. They regards that our own thoughts and action towards the society can make the world worth living on earth. And if this two things are fulfilled then they believed that one can gain own respects in the society. Works Cited Thoreau.(1907). The American Scholar. Retrieved from.http:www.gutenberg.org D.Conor,(2009 June 30). Yahoo contributor net work. Retrieved from:hhptt/www.wikepe.com. Emerson,R,W.(1834).The American Scholar. In essay. Retrieved from.http:www.gutenberg.org
Though Henry David Thoreau lived more than one hundred years before the time of Martin Luther King Jr., his philosophy lingered in the minds of many individuals. Thoreau was opposed to injustice in general and refused to support or to follow the unjust laws. His idealism and anarchism influenced the thinking of King. Douglass' narrative shows how his thinking would have been similar to that of Thoreau's.
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Thoreau and Emerson were considered as transcendentalists and their tones are most similar to one other. Thoreau and Emerson both used religion in their writing, knew about people, loved nature and were introspective. Nathaniel Hawthorne took a more humorous side than the others. His work, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, was an ironic story that showed his dissatisfaction with people's actions and society's values. He was also more pessimistic than Emerson and Thoreau had been.
Transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson conveyed strong, specific viewpoints on the world through their writing. The transcendentalist ideals differ vastly with the lives lived by most of the modern world today. Firstly, the two differ on views of self-reliance. Secondly, they have different outlooks on the government and organized groups. Lastly, transcendentalist and modern American views vary by the way they view nature. These differences between transcendentalism and life today are essential in understanding life then, as well as life now.
In Thoreau’s excerpt of “Walden”, he writes about moving to the forest to live in a cabin. He gets away from the busy world around him and secludes himself to nature. While living out in the forest, Thoreau would take the time to enjoy the beauty of nature and come back to the cabin and write about it. In Emerson’s excerpt of “Nature”, he writes about the relationship of humans and nature.
In Thoreau’s view, he felt that the government was insufficient. He didn’t need the laws to be just, he used his conscious and morality. He was compelled to do what morally was right, rather than it being based on government issued laws such as the complacent society there is today. People seem to care about justice, yet are immoral. This was the message Thoreau was trying to get across.
His attitudes help decipher his meanings and intentions of informing about philosophy as they give a more specific innuendo as to what he wants the reader to understand from what he’s saying. However, it’s quite difficult to narrow down what type of people Thoreau can intellectually connect with, because he doesn’t take the time to get to know them personally, which can be hard to follow. But, his applications of literary devices made it broad enough for anyone to be able to see his perspective and opinions and understand enough to be able to see it themselves in their daily
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On August 31, 1839 Thoreau and his older brother, John, left Concord on a boat trip down the Concord river, onto Middlesex Canal, into the Merrimack River and into the state of New Hampshire. This trip left Thoreau with the experiences to write his first Book, A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Early in 1841 Thoreau’s brother John became seriously ill. Not able to deal with the current situation Thoreau moved into an upstairs bedroom in Emerson’s home. On March 11th of the following year Thoreau lost his friend and life long companion, his brother.
While Emerson and Thoreau certainly have difference of opinions, they recognize the need for public discussion and discourse. Emerson declares “a foolish consistency” to be “the hobgoblin of little minds” (Emerson 367). This is shown in their essays “Self-Reliance” and “Civil Disobedience” in which they support individuality and personal expression. Despite their contrasting views of society and government, the two most prominent transcendentalists in literary history share a passionate belief in the necessity that every American must exercise their constitutional rights and make known their views even and especially if it challenges the status quo.
"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."
Emerson's essay, Nature is essentially one that seeks show a new form of enlightening the human spirit and urges the establishment of a stronger link between man and the Universal Spirit through. Emerson sees nature as this inspiration to people and catalyst for a deeper understanding of the spiritual world.
To conclude, Thoreau believed that people should be ruled by conscience and that people should fight against injustice through non-violence according to “Civil Disobedience.” Besides, he believed that we should simplify our lives and take some time to learn our essence in the nature. Moreover, he deemed that tradition and money were unimportant as he demonstrated in his book, Walden. I suggested that people should learn from Thoreau to live deliberately and spend more time to go to the nature instead of watching television, playing computer games, and among other things, such that we could discover who we were and be endeavored to build foundations on our dreams.
Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne are different and alike in many ways. Thoreau was a man that never married and believes each man should "march to his own drum" or go his own pace. Nathaniel Hawthorne on the other hand, was married very quickly. Thoreau was described "as ugly as sin with a long nose and queer mouth." Hawthorne was handsome on the outside, but depressed on the inside. Hawthorne was a Dark Romantic, while Thoreau was a Transcendentalist.
In order to understand any comparison of the two author's one must first read and comprehend that Emerson's writing are clearly an instruction manual that Whitman adopts in order to become an outstanding poet. Emerson believes we must,