Nature vs. Humanity
This essay emphasizes the beauty and spiritual power of the natural world.
What is Nature?
This essay argues that people should trust their own instincts.
What is Self-Reliance?
What is the theme of "Civil disobedience"?
What is going against the law is justified if it is harmful to you.
What is the theme of "Flowers"?
What is childhood innocence can be taken in an instant.
What is the theme of "A Rose for Emily".
What is you can't hold onto the past because it will stop you from growing as a person?
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed nature helps humans connect to this.
What is the spirit?
Emerson famously states that “imitation is” this.
What is suicide?
Thoreau argues that people should not follow laws that are this.
What are unjust laws?
The main character of The Flowers is named this.
Who is Myop?
Emily refuses to accept this after her father’s death.
What is change?
According to Emerson, nature serves as a reflection of this part of humanity.
What is the mind?
In Mirror Image, the main characters struggle with this concept.
What is identity?
Thoreau believes moral responsibility belongs first to the what?
Who is the individual?
Myop’s mood changes after she finds this in the woods.
What is a dead body?
In A Rose for Emily, Emily keeps this in her house.
What is Homer Barron’s body?
Emerson believed people could find truth by observing nature rather than relying on what?
What is society or tradition?
Emerson believes society pressures people to conform instead of being what?
What are individuals/independent thinkers?
Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay this.
What is a poll tax?
In "Flowers" the tone shifts from cheerful to this.
What is dark?
Open House on Haunted Hill uses this setting to create suspense.
What is a haunted house?
This Transcendentalist belief is central to Nature.
What is individual connection to the universe?
Both Self-Reliance and Mirror Image emphasize this theme.
What is individuality?
This modern idea was influenced by Civil Disobedience.
What is peaceful protest?
The discovery of a dead man symbolizes this major life change.
What is the loss of innocence?
How does the house in "Open house on Haunted Hill", represent self-control?
What is the house resists the urge to become evil and takes control of its loneliness.