INSTRUCTIONS: Each post should be approximately 300 words in length. Both Part 1 and Part 2 should be posted in the same response. For a total of at least 600 words not to include citations.
Part 1: Analyze the views of nature expressed by Emerson and Thoreau in this week's readings. Then compare and contrast them to one another. You might also want to apply these themes of nature to overall thought of the Transcendentalists as a genre or discipline.
Part 2: What does Thoreau think of his contemporaries in "Civil Disobedience"? What in particular bothers him about them? Is there any societal expectation, convention, or behavior that you feel you would like to rebel against? Why?