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Escape From Society

Escape From Society
The battle for freedom from society’s influence is a theme present in many works of U.S. Romantic literature. This fear of conformity was significant in the works of many authors, scientists, and artists of the Romantic Era because it showed that people were beginning
to venture out of the norm and form their own ways of thinking. The encouragement of individuality is present in works such as Emerson’s “Nature”, and Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”. These works are expressed in two different styles; Emerson voices his ideas through an essay, while Melville speaks through a fictional character by the name of Bartleby in a short story. The approach may be different, due to each author’s individuality, but the same message of encouraging individualism is the purpose of both “Nature” and “Bartleby the Scrivener”.
Emerson’s interest in individualism, and therefore opposition to conformity, is apparent in his essay “Nature”. The......


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