Essays on Walden

In this project, we are going to try to analyze the different perspectives about life that Thoreau reflects in Walden. In addition, we are going to compare Thoreau’s thoughts with the perspectives of other authors and we are going to use his work Walden itself as the principal source. According to Thoreau, we should reject...

Walden is an account of Henry Thoreau, written as he lived a life of simplicity in the woods for two years. His ideals were that one’s true self could be lost among the distractions in life; hence, he began to live deliberately by stripping away those distractions to reveal his own future visions and path....

 Walden was written in the spirit to prove that man could live on much fewer expenses and thus the effort a man put into earning the money to buy them was unnecessary. Before diving deeper, Thoreau fails to point out that one of his friends owned Walden Pond and the surrounding land. Without his friend’s...