Faculty Mentor
Richmond Eustis
Location
Library 3D
Session
Session 4
Start Date
13-4-2013 9:30 AM
End Date
13-4-2013 10:30 AM
Description
In his essay Walking, Henry David Thoreau asks for a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure, an environment so malignant towards humanity that we dare not attempt to make it our home, but later remarks that music and beasts in their native forests, like all good things[,] are wild and free. In “The Blithedale Romance” Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the notion of wildness in a world of social slavery. Using these two texts, I will explore the layered meanings of wildness and the ways in which these meanings reflect Transcendentalis.
An Assessment of Wildness in "Walking" and “The Blithedale Romance”
Library 3D
In his essay Walking, Henry David Thoreau asks for a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure, an environment so malignant towards humanity that we dare not attempt to make it our home, but later remarks that music and beasts in their native forests, like all good things[,] are wild and free. In “The Blithedale Romance” Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the notion of wildness in a world of social slavery. Using these two texts, I will explore the layered meanings of wildness and the ways in which these meanings reflect Transcendentalis.