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Henry David Thoreau's Walden Or Life In The Woods

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Henry David Thoreau, in his book of Walden or Life in the Woods, he asserts that we don’t think for ourselves and that we create habits by following the society system. Thoreau claims, that we live only to commit ourselves to labor to accumulate wealth and property. As Thoreau says, “The mass of man lead lives of quiet desperation” in this quote he means that we choose to slave ourselves, because we see limited choices but yet we have an infinite will of choice. Thoreau method to avoid living a life with habits and labor, is by not committing to things that are uncertain to us. Thoreau demonstrates to be uncommitted we only need the four necessities of life that is food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. We don’t have to be occupied with labor

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