In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote about his account of an extended stay in the woods. ... Henry David Thoreau had gone to Walden Pond, a small body of water outside Concord, Massachusetts, in order to write a book dedicated to his dead brother. ... It was in "Walden" that Thoreau launched his major criticism of American civilization; its materialistic values and its unthinking work ethic and his philosophy that it was possible to redefine, through his time at Walden Pond, what the true "necessaries" of life really are (Walden 111). ... That "private business" was to search his own soul (Wal...

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These four needs are the key components to what Thoreau's experiment at Walden was all about. ... One of the major contributing factors as to why Thoreau abandons society to live on Walden Pond was to escape the so-called luxuries of life. Thoreau views these "luxuries" as disposable and not necessary but also as obstructions of the true simplicity of life (Walden). ... Late in the chapter Thoreau indentifies his audience as poor, middle class, labor-intensive citizens (Walden). ... The entire first chapter of Thoreau's book Walden is a justification for why Thoreau he...

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In a like manner, Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau presents a similar theme of self-sufficiency in his novel, Walden. Like Emerson, Thoreau lived two years in solitude in a cabin near Walden Pond. ... In Walden, Thoreau says, "Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we live like baboons or like men is a little uncertain" (Thoreau). ... Both transcendentalists, Emerson and Thoreau, presented this theme in their works Self Reliance...

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His early journal "Walden" is based on the author's 2-year stay in a cabin he build himself on the shore of apond (called Walden), on Emerson's property.This work deals, among others, with the separation of morality from Christianity. ... "Walden" is also Thoreau's description how he learned to "live deliberately" and an expression of his own awereness of the importance of the present moment. ...

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Consider the way Worster's version of Thoreau's empirically rooted difference from Emerson's figuratively deracinated use of nature has extended into recent criticism that gives greater attention to Thoreau's unpublished work after Walden (1854). ... In its thoroughgoing and often messy empiricism, in contrast to the polish of Walden or the lyricism of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Thoreauvian ecocritics read this later work no longer as aesthetically deficient in Emersonian metaphor or the transcendental poetics of correspondence, but rather as environ...

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In an excerpt from his novel "Walden," "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," the narrator reiterates the indication of him being free unrestrained by answering a few intimate questions. ... In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," the narrator recalls thoughts of places he stayed at before selecting Walden Pond and while he ventures into the woods to relieve himself and finds the meaning of life. ...

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Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. ... Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. ...

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