Nature in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay

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It is the character's inner nature that eventually triumphs in its fight with the environment.

Goethe's main character is apparently obsessed with the fact that he is human, especially given that his point-of-view regarding the topic is that people are predisposed to losing their control at a certain moment in their lives. Emerson wants his readers to learn more about the benefits that the surrounding environment provides them with. He considers that the natural world and society as a whole is meant to assist people through their difficult moments, indirectly condemning Werther's conviction concerning how it would be unsuitable for a person to express their feelings of distress in public.

Through committing suicide, Werther proves that he is too selfish to share his problems with the world. He considers that individuals who put across their emotions in the presence of others are arrogant. However, his own approach at resolving the most stressing difficulty in his life can be associated with arrogance -- if judged in accordance with his convictions.
Considering Emerson's main ideas in "Nature," it is likely that the writer could have influenced individuals in seeing nature differently and in appreciating it from a rational point-of-view. Goethe's life experiences had apparently rendered him unable to perceive nature from a more objective point-of-view, such as Emerson. Emerson focused on discovering nature's ability to relieve an individual's suffering and actually act as a catalyst to channel pain. He was reluctant to accept the early Romantic perspective regarding nature (it was associated -- by Goethe in particular - with dramatic events in life, only managing to amplify people's suffering).

Works cited:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature.

On Emerson. Contributors: Edwin H. Cady - editor, Louis J. Budd - editor. Publisher: Duke University Press. Place of Publication: Durham, NC. Publication….....

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