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Economy
- Thoreau
- 30 Years-Old and
lived alone in the
woods in a house he
built
- Shore of
Walden in
Concord,
Massachusetts
- Lived there for 2
years and
months
- Shore of
Walden in
Concord,
Massachusetts
- Thoreau's Life in Walden
- Like a test for others on
himself (experiment)
- Work 2 times as hard until you can support yourself
Encourage individuality adn uniqueness (does not
want aquaintances to follow his lifestyle - find their
own way) People asking for money are not who they
percieve them to be (not as hungry or cold as thier
appearance makes them seem).
- Work 2 times as hard until you can support yourself
Encourage individuality adn uniqueness (does not
want aquaintances to follow his lifestyle - find their
own way) People asking for money are not who they
percieve them to be (not as hungry or cold as thier
appearance makes them seem).
- 2 Years passed since
living in his self-built
house
- Simple diet is all we really need
- we still retain good health and
strength - Man starves out of
luxuries (not necessary)
- Simple diet is all we really need
- we still retain good health and
strength - Man starves out of
luxuries (not necessary)
- Like a test for others on
himself (experiment)
- Thoreau Building House
- Simplified life - no
rush nor deadline
given
- Built house with
little expenses -
about $28
- "But a man has no more to
do with the style of
architecture of his house
than a tortoise with that
of its shell" (52)
- A house is like a turtle's shell - you
don't live there forever, you
eventually grow up/get bigger and
move out. Like how a turtle grows
too big for it shell and does not
"fit" into it anymore - leaves to
find a new one
- A house is like a turtle's shell - you
don't live there forever, you
eventually grow up/get bigger and
move out. Like how a turtle grows
too big for it shell and does not
"fit" into it anymore - leaves to
find a new one
- Simplified life - no
rush nor deadline
given
- Experienced the
"mean and
sneaking lives"
that many of us
live
- Working ourselves to
the bone to get
money, only to lock it
away in a bank
- Working ourselves to
the bone to get
money, only to lock it
away in a bank
- Multiple jobs
before writing
this
- Reporter to a journal - no work published
Self-appointed inspector of snow and rain storms
Looked after wild stock of the town
- Reporter to a journal - no work published
Self-appointed inspector of snow and rain storms
Looked after wild stock of the town
- 30 Years-Old and
lived alone in the
woods in a house he
built
- Men
- Won't live by fate
if it can be
avoided
- Laboring men
have no leisure
for integrity
- Low and primitive
condition as men
are very focused on
unnecessary
luxuries
- Won't live by fate
if it can be
avoided
- Public Opinion Vs.
Private Opinion
- “See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely
all the day he fears, not being immortal nor
divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own
opinion of himself, a fame won by his own
deeds”
- People are slaves to their
opinions and thoughts of
themselves - like a tyrant
(takes over the mind and
becomes toxic - Whatever
one thinks of themselves
= their fate
- People are slaves to their
opinions and thoughts of
themselves - like a tyrant
(takes over the mind and
becomes toxic - Whatever
one thinks of themselves
= their fate
- “See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely
all the day he fears, not being immortal nor
divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own
opinion of himself, a fame won by his own
deeds”
- Old People/Older Generations
- "Old deeds from old
people, and new deeds
from new"
- Time changes - Newer
generations are more
advanced and are able
to do more than the
older generations with
the technology that's
available.
- Time changes - Newer
generations are more
advanced and are able
to do more than the
older generations with
the technology that's
available.
- Old people do not have any
"good" advice to give to the
young
- Believes that
since times
are changing,
the old
people’s
advice does
not apply thus
being useless
- Believes that
since times
are changing,
the old
people’s
advice does
not apply thus
being useless
- "Old deeds from old
people, and new deeds
from new"
- "Necessaries of life"
- Important to
human life that
few to none can
live without it
- Food, Shelter,
Clothing, Fuel
- Securing these means being
prepared to face real problems in life
and prospect of success. Luxuries are
not improvements but hindrances to
mankind elevation
- Securing these means being
prepared to face real problems in life
and prospect of success. Luxuries are
not improvements but hindrances to
mankind elevation
- Food, Shelter,
Clothing, Fuel
- Important to
human life that
few to none can
live without it
- Business/Money
- Necessary to make
items worth the
consumer
- "Economy is a subject which
admits of being treated with
levity, but it cannot so be
disposed of"
- Can not be gone or
destroyed - a serious issue
that is treated lightly
(humor)
- Can not be gone or
destroyed - a serious issue
that is treated lightly
(humor)
- Necessary to make
items worth the
consumer
- Civilization Vs. Savagery
- Civilization is an
advanced condition of
man while savages are
"below" civilization and
are not advanced men
as they are degraded by
contact with civilized
men
- Civilization is an
advanced condition of
man while savages are
"below" civilization and
are not advanced men
as they are degraded by
contact with civilized
men
- Peasant Life Vs.
Rich Life
- Peasant - traveller
Rich - something
everyone wants and
tries to get
- Peasant - traveller
Rich - something
everyone wants and
tries to get
- School/College
- Believes that more true
wisdom means less
education needed
- Should not just
study life - live it
form beginning to
end
- Should be taught real life
skills that are needed and are
going to be used to "survive"
- Colleges have many
"modern
improvements"
- Just an illusion; not always
positive advancements
- Just an illusion; not always
positive advancements
- Believes that more true
wisdom means less
education needed
- Slaves
- "It is the pious slave-breeder devoting
the proceeds of every tenth slave to
buy a Sunday's liberty for the rest"
(84)
- Doesn't support
slavery - should treat
them right and as
equal humans
- Doesn't support
slavery - should treat
them right and as
equal humans
- "It is the pious slave-breeder devoting
the proceeds of every tenth slave to
buy a Sunday's liberty for the rest"
(84)