Henry David Thoreau , The Conformist vs. the Individual
The Conformist, the Individual, and Henry David Thoreau
In Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau describes how he
lives his life simply and believes that this is the key to living life to the fullest.
However, I found while reading the passage that his outlook on living out ones life
seemed to me to have both its high points as well as its low points. At first I
thought that Thoreau was trying to …
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…The more I thought about
the matter the more I began to think that possibly the reason some people are
unhappy with life is because they are trying to model their own lives after others
or perhaps focusing on what other people generally accept to be high points in life.
Although Thoreau is one for individuality, there are some things that he points out
in his work that are strictly that of his own individualism.
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