Lens Essay - Thoreau and Emerson

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Thoreau is Self-Reliance

Introduction

Henry David Thoreau 's Civil Disobedience , seen through his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson 's Self-Reliance , is an engaging conversation that anyone would wish to take part into . One expounds on the other 's idea in a way that keeps the conversation moving and elevating . Sometimes , their words are even in resonant agreement . With respect to the individual as his own reference in living his life , Thoreau said : It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law , so much

as for the right The only obligation which I have the right to assume , is to do at any time what I think right (125 . An almost template match to Emerson 's Good and bad are but names readily transferable to that or this the only right is what is after my constitution , the only wrong what is against it (Emerson 44 . What is more remarkable , however , is how much Henry David Thoreau through the way he communicated his sentiments toward the government in Civil Disobedience , personified the ideologies that Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed in his essay Self-Reliance

Summary of Lens Text (Self-Reliance

Self-Reliance focuses on the individual it articulates that character is superior to property and is how a person should be seen . It is what a person should develop so that he could be whole and at peace with himself . It also says that one should discover his intrinsic greatness and express it boldly and honestly even if it means...