Emerson V.S Oates Compare and Contrast: Different views on Nature In class out of the three essays we read I choose to do a compare-contrast between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and Joyce Carol Oates’s essays. I choose these two because they both had different feels towards nature. Oates is against nature and Emerson is about becoming one with nature. Even though both have different meaning‚ both Oates and Emerson successfully uses rhetorical strategies such as appeal to credibility‚ emotion‚ and
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Essay- Thoreau’s "Walden" What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of living a “full” life? To me it’s gaining as much knowledge as possible and ultimately staying happy throughout. In Henry Thoreau’s story Walden‚ he turns to raw nature to achieve his way of living a full life. He borrows an axe and decides to build a cabin on Walden Pond where he would stay for the next two years. Living only off the land and surrounded by nothing but nature. Thoreau abandons society to
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Similar to Emerson‚ Muir also writes the sequence of events in a cause-effect manner where the outcome of one event stems the cause of the subsequent event. This writing style serves to control the speed of the reader’s thoughts and allows for a deeper appreciation of what the author is trying to portray much like that of Emerson’s aspect towards nature and writing style. In Muir’s instance‚ Muir is trying to exemplify the idea that nature is the creation of God and therefore a direct connection
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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail‚ a greatly emphasized theme is the idea of being unique from others by taking the initiative to undertake your own . The idea of individualism is an important quality of transcendentalism‚ and it is greatly implied in the play that people who strive to be their own self do better in life compared to a person who aims to be like another person. Individualism means to try new things that set you apart from the normal way of doing things. In my opinion‚ one of the
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Henry David Thoreau‚ in which he hated the way the modern world lived‚ as he believed it was stuck in an everlasting rhythm‚ too distracted to see clearly‚ but this was in the late 19th century. How would Thoreau reflect upon our society? We may reflect transcendentalism on our long walks‚ or even our vacations‚ but what else do we all reflect as a planet? An explanation can be given through
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Rhetorical Analysis-“Reading” in Walden Walden is a personal essay of Henry David Thoreau‚ as he goes into wood and writes his personal experiences by immersing himself in nature. By detaching himself from the society‚ Thoreau tried to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. His thoughts of understanding society or finding the “truth” are discussed on the third chapter “Reading.” This chapter constitutes a description of what Thoreau has gained from reading and
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different aspects of individuality‚ self worth‚ and self prosperity as well as many other things. Two main figures during this era of self righteousness were Thoreau and Emerson‚ their thoughts were filled with radicalistic viewpoints and idealistic assumptions. Their viewpoints were built on good morals and ideologies but in practice were taken too far and resulted in amalgamations of radicalists fighting over what they thought was right. So in precisely Thoreau and Emerson’s ideas were built on good
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts on the 25th of May‚ 1803 to his mother‚ Ruth Haskins‚ and his father Rev. William Emerson. Emerson’s father died at an early age‚ and he was raised by his mother as well as his Aunt Mary Emerson‚ who became a big influence in his life. In his younger years‚ Emerson attended the Boston Latin School at the age of nine‚ and then Harvard College at the early age of fourteen. After graduating from Harvard in 1821 at eighteen
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