Transendalism

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Thoreau and Emerson
Transcendentalism is used frequently as main topics in the stories “Nature”
and Walden. These two themes are heavily concentrated on though these two
stories are similar on the aspects of themes, though they differ on thethoughts
of civilization and governments. These two stories also differ in the realms of
creativity in the story. Walden was a story written by Thoreau, which is fairly
similar to the contrasting book “Nature”. Emerson who uses his thoughts on
transcendentalism to play a key role in the story writes “Nature”. Emerson
uses the themes of Nature and God to represent and reflect nature as
transcendentalism. Thoreau stresses the relationship with God and Nature at
the same time. The two themes are used at once to direct the story in the path
that the Thoreau wants it to lead. This is easily shown in the statement, “ In
the woods we return to reason and faith.” Both themes are quite similar
though it is said that Emerson is more creative and imaginative in his way of
depicting the short story as it progresses. The six characteristics of
Transcendentalism stand out in each one of these stories. Both of these
stories concentrate on writing about nature more than anything else. Emerson
thought that God was a personal matter and that the relationship between
man and god can only be embraced and made through man himself. The
similarities are so stressed in these articles it is difficult to see them as
contrasting on the elements of themes. Though the story written by Emerson
seems to...