Friday, April 9, 2010
Transending.
I don't believe that Eustace is a transcendentalist, Eustace goes out into the woods to get away from others keeping him down, not to get closer to God in some way. The transcendentalist idea is that by being out in nature with the natural things God created, one will grow closer to God. Eustace on the other hand, ventures into the woods for two main reasons, the first being the fact that well, he likes it. Eustace likes being outdoors and doing woodsy type things, and so he chooses to do it. he also does it to escape the oppression he feels from his father, neither of these represent the ideas of transcendentalism.
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Jordan,
I agree exactly with what you're saying. I basically thought that exact same thing when I was doing my blog. I think that his main purpose of spending so much time in the wilderness isn't to become closer to god or really even to find himself more--it's just so he doesn't have to live in the square society, and so that he can get away from other people.
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