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Marlowe Mitchell

ENGL 2131

February 2021

Relationship between the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are viewed as two of the most powerful and

moving visionary essayists of their time. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a teacher, writer, and

artist, was brought into the world on May 25, 1803, and is, for the most part, viewed as the dad of

American introspective philosophy, "a way of thinking that dismisses the possibility that

information can be completely gotten as a matter of fact and perception; rather, truth lives in the

otherworldly world." Henry David Thoreau is his understudy, an extraordinary writer, and pundits.

The two men widely considered and accepted nature, and the two men empowered and rehearsed

independence and rebelliousness.

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's article "Self-Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau's exposition

"Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience"), both visionary scholars talk about being

individual and what changes and changes should be made in the public eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and his pupil, Henry David Thoreau, who were individualists, assaulted the

predominant strict, political, and social estimations of American culture to make individuals

mindful that they are a higher priority than everything, including government and society. As

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indicated by Emerson, society is a hindrance against the independence of its individuals; and he

proceeded:

"Society is a business entity, where the individuals concur, for the better getting of his bread to

every investor, to give up the freedom and culture of the eater. The ideals in the most solicitation

is similarity."

The solution, for Emerson, is independence, implying that man is just liable for his own life and

shouldn't be too wrapped in the public arena, which is one of the fundamental standards of

Transcendentalism. The other standard is independence, which communicated in Thoreau's "Civil

Disobedience":

"I imagine that we ought to be men first and subjects thereafter. It isn't attractive to develop a

regard for the law, to such an extent concerning the right. The lone commitment which I reserve

an option to accept that is to do whenever what I think right."

Also, in " Self-Reliance" by Emerson: "To accept your own idea, to accept that what is valid for

you in your private heart is valid for all men - that is virtuoso."

Thoreau was Emerson's student; he remained with him and was influenced by his thoughts,

apprehensive about individuals and society. Emerson's thought that in the public eye, the heart and

force of man are drawn out and disregarded, which makes individuals terrified of communicating

their own thoughts just as fearing truth, driven Thoreau to believe that:

"Everybody has a commitment to himself and himself, alone. An excessive number of individuals

in the public arena adjust to what the public authority says is correct and moral when the genuine

significance of right or good comes from what every individual hold to be correct. To turn into a

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Marlowe Mitchell ENGL 2131 19th February 2021 Relationship between the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are viewed as two of the most powerful and moving visionary essayists of their time. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a teacher, writer, and artist, was brought into the world on May 25, 1803, and is, for the most part, viewed as the dad of American introspective philosophy, "a way of thinking that dismisses the possibility that information can be completely gotten as a matter of fact and perception; rather, truth lives in the otherworldly world." Henry David Thoreau is his understudy, an extraordinary writer, and pundits. The two men widely considered and accepted nature, and the two men empowered and rehearsed independence and rebelliousness. In Ralph Waldo Emerson's article "Self-Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau's exposition "Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience"), both visionary scholars talk about being individual and what changes and changes should be made in the public eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson and his pupil, Henry David Thoreau, who were individualists, assaulted the predominant strict, political, and social estimations of American culture to make individuals mindful that they are a higher priority than everything, including government and society. As indicated by Emerson, society is a hindrance against the independence of its individuals; and he proceeded: "Society is a business entity, ...
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