LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Simplified life, importance of nature, intuition over reason
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Self Reliance, non-conformity, self-realization
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finally, the obscure mystical side of Thoreau-which makes him often appear more of a visionary than a philosopher-is evident in his famous phrase “to live deliberately.” On a literal level, he wishes to choose his path of life independently and thoughtfully, subject to his own deliberation and no one else’s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau went to the woods to live and live deliberately. Living deliberately entails living consciously and intentionally. Thoreau’s intent was to live without regret of not living enough. In today’s society the focus is on living through others with a constant need for validation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Meaning = Thoreau went into the woods because he wished to only pursue the deliberate matters and truly live his life, so that when it came to die, he could say he had lived true.
Detailed explanation-5: -For Thoreau at the start of Walden, living deliberately meant leading a life of solitude, self-reliance, and intimate connection to the natural world.