Thoruea's depication of nature in Walden

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Thoreau's Depiction of Nature in Walden

Thoreau's Depiction of Nature in Walden

Thoreau has a sense of humility for both humanity and nature in his book. He isolates himself from the complicated type of life in order to stay in isolation n for two and a half years near nature in order to understand it better. Indeed he uses that chance to understand the art of nature better in which he ends up saying that everything we see in nature has the right to live. Everything is better off when it's life rather than when it's dead. Besides that, he argues that man struggles in his daily life seeking to make his life better yet he only requires to understand himself and find the inner self in order to have an understanding of what life is all about. Therefore, in this case, we use the ecocriticism theory to highlight Thoreau's depiction of nature in Walden. I already mentioned than in my introduction

Thoreau shows that life can be complete without the necessary man being too complicated to consider having nature as his home. This is basically by narrowing down too many objectives that man has into only a few that meet the daily lives of the man. As such, all this simple life is easily offered by nature there are no expenses incurred in taking a bath in the path, having a simple structure near the nature way from the beehive of activities in the village. Therefore, to Thoreau, life is all about making it simple, simplifying it into the nature that provides both spiritual and natural satisfaction. Through his life in solitude, he discovered the remedy to spiritual disintegration in the form of the economy through simplicity in which the affairs are reduced into two or one thus making life better and cheaper. Besides that, at the pond, he also learns the art of self-reliance that his teacher had talked about four years earlier. Irrelevant

The illusion of progress that mankind has developed is one of the key factors that Thoreau fights in his quest to understand nature and lead a simple life. The world has been taken over by the economic demands which end up causing the destruction of nature, the technology which calls for sophisticated weaponry, tools, and equipment that have all endangered nature and overall territorial advances on natural values thus creating an imbalance between humanity and nature. However, this outward development and improvement do not appeal to Thoreau as far as man seeks peace in his inner self. Ambiguous. He believes that inner peace is found in nature, in a peaceful environment where there are limited disturbances from human activities. As such, Thoreau does not support the encroachment activities of mankind into nature, the best example being the train that distrusts the peaceful life at the pond.

In order to protect the environment and nature at large, Thoreau seems to be resistance to development. For instance, he does not support social development such as the development of the train despite being a faster mode of transport he says that he would rather vegetate in the little corner at the woods but not commute unreflectively from place to place. His protective nature of the environment shows that indeed there is still value for the environment that mankind should rather prioritize their development agenda as the destruction of environment and nature comes at a cost for the entire human population.

Besides that, Thoreau also shows that nature has the authority of mankind, a man tries to take charge if nature its nature that triumphs at long last. Nature exists peacefully with mankind, however, its mankind that tries to show his superiority through his nature of exploration. As such, ice being the only natural thing available at the Walden Pond, a man arrives in large number with the intention of harvesting as much ice as possible in order to take to their homes. At first, the man seems to be winning only to realize that not more than 5% of the collected ice gets its way to the destination. This is because the ice melts and water drains back to the Walden point. It's through such techniques that the author shows his prowess in the mastery of the use of ecocriticism. Write me the explanation of this sentence

Therefore, the war between man and nature is in vain did he mention war in his book?. This is because man has no chance to win in such a war. This is simply because of the ability of nature to replenish itself such that there it does not get exhausted but it can always be renewed. This is unlike the case of mankind which upon their death there is no renewal. As such, nature remains superior to mankind and it should thus be always protected and taken care of.

Thoreau successfully manages to use his mastery of literature to portray how man has to take care of nature. The advancements taking shape in the universe today means that nature has no chances. Something has to be done in order to ensure that in the end both mankind and nature can co-exist peacefully. However, for to take place just like Thoreau puts it man has a role to find his inner self. In this case, the inner self won't is found naturally without a man taking the appropriate decisions. Man must be able to assess the situation and not exploit nature without proper means to ensure that it's replenished.

Therefore, in summary Thoreau depicts nature as a tool that bears all remedies to the problems that mankind faces today. In his theory man has also only to be simple and the economic aspect will take care of itself by nature. As such, ecocriticism theory shows the emphasis that man must pay on the protection of nature by the use of literature. Do not mention the theory per say here

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References

Thoreau, H. D. (2014). Walden (Illustrated): and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience.