Victor best explains this through a quote “Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart: he again taught me to the aspect of nature and the cheerful faces of Children (56)”. Victor takes in what Henry has to say, but his understanding of this is far greater then the natural world. The beauty in nature to him is that it can be altered and improved to the ways of his likings, or destroyed with the simplest of things. Victor’s understanding of nature and its course through life exceeds his understanding of any other human knowledge. He does not take it for what it is, but for what it can be.
Those characteristics cannot be simply chosen to be incorporated they are integrated into the authors personality and profession in the real world. Nature is an essay that describes the foundation of transcendentalism, showing the value behind a person using nature to get closer to God. Transcendentalism disagrees with life in a man-made society and Ralph Waldo Emerson explains what the disadvantages are. In the essay Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, focuses on reputation/expertise and trustworthiness to uphold transcendentalism and illustrate the advantages of the belief. Reputation and expertise demonstrate what one knows about the topic, they are assisted by recognition.
He found this to be a necessity, order for him to speak universal truths and express his own genius and be believable to others. Emerson felt that nothing in this world can bring one peace but one’s self and that only the triumph of principles can bring one peace. These last two lines from “Self Reliance” essay represent Emerson’s individualistic concepts (Ralph 4). Emerson values the equal individual that is in touch with their universal genius. Fredrick Douglass is evidence of discovering his own brilliance and universal truths.
“Nature” is an accurate illustration of the views that the transcendentalists had on the natural world. By immersing himself in nature, he says that he is given a new sense of clarity, divinity, and enlightenment that cannot be gained anywhere but in nature. He was a strong believer that finding oneself and exploring one’s own soul is the ultimate pursuit of happiness, that the ultimate fulfillment in life would be self-discovery. Henry David Thoreau, Emerson’s short-time housemate, held very similar ideas, and found the works of his friend inspirational. Thoreau’s essay, “Civil Disobedience”, describes his idea of rebellion against laws he felt were unnecessary or unjust.
A main character trait of Victor Frankenstein and the monster is their love and connection with nature. Both characters use nature to solace them when their moods are low. One of Victor’s favorite nature retreats is the beautiful lake in Geneva. He boated out there after William’s death and said himself how the “heavenly scene restored him.” Nature is able to satisfy Victor and create a sense of happiness. There are many aspects between the monster and Victor, but in many ways, are different.
However, on his journey, he experiences a process which allows him to leave behind his false ideas about himself and to adopt healthier attitudes regarding himself and the people around him. His Aunt Pilate has the self-knowledge that Milkman sets out to find, and is the only character who lives her life by letting go of what holds her
It is the only time he thinks of what he has left behind. Also the reason why he laughs is that He discovers he does not look like his brothers, because they are shapeless, formless, and downtrodden while he is thin, strong, and lithe. He is hard and strong and concludes that he can trust himself and has nothing to fear of his own company. 8. The uncharted forest symbolizes our society being burned and hidden in the leafs it symbolizes free thought action and freedom in general. Here is where equality opens up and sees his reflection and sees he looks much better than his brothers and he can become scientifically greater to. 9.
It implies that to truly live life, one must seek simplicity, harmony with nature, and to follow one’s own path. Thoreau strongly believes and advocates that those who live lives of luxury and in mainstream culture created by the Industrial Revolution aren’t really living. He believes this illusion of progress impedes man’s spiritual transcendence, true happiness, and understanding of the essential facts of life. Thoreau’s advice encourages one to rid of superfluous possessions and social activities so as to lead as simple and "bare bones" a life as possible. The advice explains that “life near the bone is sweetest.” The simple life (i.e.
Both men not only exhibited intellectual curiosity concerning the meaningful components of life, but they acted upon the principle of discovering, if possible, their individual notions of the spirit of life. For this reason, Thoreau and McCandless represent “the best of liberal individualism, encompassing risk and refusal, optimism and utter confidence” (Watkins 2009, 11). Next, there is Thoreau’s declaration in Walden to his “fellows,” “As long as possible live free and uncommitted” (Thoreau 1854, 69). McCandless absolutely took note of this advice, almost to a fault, ridding himself of all burdensome possessions and actively avoiding emotional attachment with people that he met during his cross-country trek. Material possessions and any excess beyond the bare necessities seem to represent barriers to Thoreau and McCandless’ higher goals of freedom, and intellectual and spiritual
Education and religion are but two. Fulfilling the inner need thirst of knowledge was touched upon briefly by Plato. But even more current is the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the final paragraphs of Self Reliance, Emerson discusses success, property and fortune. The importance of honest, morally satisfying, work and respecting the property that is the result of that work is fulfilling.