Hawthorne’s Dark Romanticist Message Henry David Thoreau’s positive, transcendentalist view of human nature in Walden contrasts sharply with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s perspective. In the chapter “Where I Lived and What I Lived for,” Thoreau discusses humankind’s potential to become fully “awake,” describing the moral, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of being awake in a long passage that […]
What contextual factors contribute to the depiction of injustice, and what might “justice” to counteract it look like?
Topic Discuss and compare how we see the idea of “injustice” portrayed in the specific primary texts included in our course materials by Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Rebecca Harding Davis. What contextual factors contribute to the depiction of injustice, and what might “justice” to counteract it look like? What elements of “injustice” do […]