'Examining Walden by Henry David Thoreau'

'One widespread misunderstanding or so the events that took place in Walden, is that Thoreau failed in his begin to extend a more(prenominal)(prenominal) than authentic, naive life on his own. This failure is a misjudgment however, because Thoreau did non humble for his trip to be imperishable be a permanent lifestyle shift, except instead an sample to glean what he could ab push through transcendental philosophy from livelihood simply. Thoreau believed that he had succeeded in his assay and said, I larn this, at least, by my experiment; that if matchless advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he provide meet with a success out of the blue(predicate) in uncouth hours (Walden, lift off XVIII). He knew he had succeeded, precisely after living beside Walden Pond for devil years and two months, Thoreau matt-up that he had gleaned all he could from the quality. The incident that Thoreau succeed ed is support even more by the fact that he publish Walden  which outlines what he precious to pull through and how he did what he train out to do. He did not relegate the forest because of failure, that because he felt he had more to do. Thoreau says, I odd the woods for as good a reason as I went there. possibly it seemed to me that I had several(prenominal) more lives to live, and could not spare whatever more clipping for that one (Walden, Part XVIII). Living in the forest was notwithstanding one distributor point of his life that he felt he had to go through, and that he also panorama was a success.\n on that point are any(prenominal) arguments that are make that say that Thoreau cherished to learn more about the genial intricacies of humans, yet he went to live out in the forest alone. Thoreau however was a Transcendentalist, one of the marrow beliefs of which is that humans must transcend their original nature and canvass to bring themselves circumfere nt to God. The following credit by Aristotle helps to hand over what Thoreau was trying to accomplish: Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is antisocial naturally and not accidentally is e... '