美国文学-问题回答walden

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Teachers question: 1. There are many concepts of binary oppositions in “Walden”, for example, like civilized Concord and wild Walden Pond, can you find more? Hub PeacefulLuxurious SimpleDeveloping quickly Motionless RelativelyOpen CloseComplex PureSociety Individual2. Why did Thoreau wa

2、nt to be a chanticleer(雄鸡) to wake people up?a. In the mid nineteenth century, American is in the transition from agricultural society into industry society. Material is the only pursuit of human. In order to get more wealth, people exploit land, cut trees and do anything they can to get more money.

3、 Environment is getting worse and worse and human are in danger as well.b. Thoreau is a responsible writer and has strong justice for society. He wants to make man go back to their kind instinct.c. Thoreau is a transcendentalist. He worships spirit and against material.Study Groups questions:G1. Why

4、 Thoreau chooses Walden Pond to be the title? Walden Pond is the setting of the story. Everything in the book is happened there. Walden also represents nature, the place where one can improve his mind or spirit. G2. What information can we get from the title where I lived, and what I lived for?a. Th

5、e place where the story happens.b. Why the writer chooses the place to be a setting of this story.c. C. To explain the reason why he wants to live alone in the woods. Page 116 “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could n

6、ot learn what it had to teach, and not, when I cam to die, discover that I had not lived.” “I want to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”G4. Whats the theme of this essay?a. Spirit is over materialb. Everyman owns a spiritual kingdom in which he is the king.c. Man should go back into nat

7、ure and be in harmony with nature.d. Live simply.e. Follow your heartG5.& G13.How can you understand Thoreaus delight in his new building project at Walden?a. Spirit is superior to material.b. Live simply is a happy thingc. Nature is beautiful; living in harmony with nature is luckily. It is not onl

8、y means he felt happy for his building. What is more important is that he felt joyful for he already found a way to communicate with god, that is to live here in Walden and he really enjoyed it from his inner heart.G6. Whats the subject matter of Walden Pond?We should pursue inspirit delight instead

9、 of material. Living simply is better for us. Move Away from the hubbub world and follow your own heart.G7. Does his earlier life experience influence his later writing life?Of course, yes. a. He once a tutor in Emersons home which help him much in writing.b. He went to live around Walden which beco

10、mes the origin of his masterpiece Walden.G8. Did Thoreau really want to escape from reality? In fact, he didnt mean to escape from reality. He is a man of social responsibility. He went to the woods and made the experiment so as to prove his life creed is right, to educate people the way to truth is

11、 through the spiritual communication with nature and your own heart. That is why he only lived in woods for 2 years and wrote Walden to arouse peoples awareness of the importance of spiritual improvement. He also wrote “Civil Disobedience” which influenced the political leaders like Gandi and Luther

12、 King. He just wanted to communicate with God by living in Walden and getting close to nature. He also did some farming work to support himself, he also needed to have the daily necessity to support himself. Whats more, he invited his old friends to his cabin.G9. Is Thoreau a person who secludes him

13、self and doesnt care about the reality?The same answer (G8)G10. Why did Thoreau write so much about nature in Walden? Firstly, he was a representative of transcendentalism. And one of the features of transcendentalism is that it regards nature as symbolic of God. Secondly, Thoreau practiced his teac

14、hers theory and went to live around Walden; he thought he could communicate with God and get his spirit elevated by getting close to nature. He enjoyed embracing the nature. He believed that nature can purify our heart. G11. Are there any relationship between the masterpiece Walden and Thoreaus expe

15、rience?As we all know, writing originates from life and it reflects life. So its likely to link the writing with authors experience. As for Thoreau, he once studied with the help of Emerson, who was the founder of transcendentalism. One of the features of transcendentalism is that nature can be used

16、 to communicate with God. So he chose to go to Walden to get his spirit elevated.G12. Why did he believe that conformity is an enemy to self-reliance?This is a simile; it compares conformity to the enemy of self-reliance. Conformity means you follow rules and follow others. It indicates that you don

17、t have your own thoughts and just follow something or somebody. In other words you are not independent; you dont have the quality of self-reliance.G14. Whats Thoreaus attitude to God, philanthropist（慈善家） and bourgeoisie（资产阶级）? God is divine, but individual is also important and man can communicate with God by nature. Philanthropist: look down upon It is understandable for Thoreaus contempt for Philanthropist. As he believed that man should minimize his material need, o