LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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humans should devote their lives to putting out fires and helping each other
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humans spend too much time sleeping
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humans should be much more productive in their waking hours
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humans spend too much time preoccupied by other people’s problems
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Detailed explanation-1: -The main idea of “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau is to find the meaning of life. He set out to contemplate life and himself and to find out man’s role in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -So he looked to nature to teach, not how to live outside society, but how to live in a better society. He viewed nature as the best model for a good society. In a good society, all people would be in their natural state, equal and equally innocent. All would relate to each other organically and authentically.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau’s central message in Walden is to live simply, independently, and wisely.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thoreau was a leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement which held, as one of its premises, that the human connection with nature is necessary for intellectual and moral stability.