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2.2. Thoreau's heroes, characteristics and peculiarities
However, although the narrator sees this in essence, he still seems unable to resolve the conflict within himself. is expressed Runes are symbols of the narrator's ideal and perfected self. Walden has no protagonist other than Thoreau, who is both the narrator and the primary human subject of his stories. The following list shows the characters in the work and the historical figures mentioned by Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau Amateur naturalist, essayist, poet who loves solitude. Thoreau was a disciple and disciple of the great American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, and that he built a hut on Emerson's land at Walden Pond was an intellectual debt Thoreau owed to Emerson. Thoreau was strongly influenced by transcendentalism and believed in the perfection of humanity through education, self-inquiry and spiritual awareness. This view occupies almost all of Thoreau's writings, and even the most mundane and trivial, even woodchucks and ants, take on allegorical significance.As a former teacher, Thoreau's didactic The urge transforms a work that begins as an economic consideration and depiction of nature into a more preachy-like ending. He appreciates poverty in theory, but when he talks to really poor people, he seems a little pretentious. His style emphasizes this point, as his writing is full of classical references and fragments of poetry that are understandable to the educated but not to the underprivileged.Read the detailed analysis by Henry David Thoreau.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, poet, and leading transcendentalist. Emerson became Thoreau's mentor after Thoreau met in 1837. Emerson played a key role in establishing Walden by allowing Thoreau to live and build on his property near Walden Pond. Thoreau was philosophically built on the transcendental foundations already prepared by Emerson, so there is appropriate symbolism in this construction site. The influence of Emerson's ideas, particularly the doctrine of self-reliance, which sees the human soul and mind as the source of the reality in which they live, permeates Thoreau's work. But while Thoreau retired to his own private world, Emerson played an important role in public life, undertaking extensive lecture tours abroad to further the views expressed in his famous essays. was carried out. The two have often disagreed about the need to follow some public conventions, and the minimal amount of attention Emerson receives in his Walden can be felt as an intense tension between the two. I have. Thoreau does not mention that Emerson owns the land at all, but he goes on to elaborate on trivial facts at length. When Emerson visited in the guise of an unnamed "Ancient Immortal," Thoreau treated him with relative indifference.
Alex Terriena worker in his late twenties who often works near Thoreau's house. Thoreau describes Terrien as "a Canadian, a lumberjack, and a postman," and argues that it would be difficult to find someone more simple and natural. Terrien is not an avid reader, but is nonetheless knowledgeable and intelligent, which gives Thoreau great appeal as an untrained hillbilly sage. Thoreau compares The Lumberjack to Walden Pond himself, noting that both have hidden depths.Read the detailed analysis by Alex Therien.John Felda poor Irish-American worker who lives with his wife and children at the Baker Farm just outside Concord. Thoreau cites Field as an example of an "honest, hardworking, but stubborn man." is a person. When Thoreau runs to Fields' house for shelter in a rainstorm, the conversation Thoreau and Field have is that Thoreau's thoughts and beliefs are different from the same poor people he idealizes elsewhere. It's an unpleasant reminder that you may be on the line. Rather than casually chit-chat with Field, Thoreau enthusiastically lectures on the benefits of reducing coffee and meat consumption.
Thoreau's style is full of metaphors, filled with sentences of observation upon observation, reflection upon reflection, before he reaches the end of a paragraph without missing a single point.
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