... , and devoted the remaining months to writing and observation. Both authors' introverted lifestyles and disregard for common comforts allowed them time to reflect on themselves and their surroundings. Nature is a reoccurring theme between Thoreau and Han-Shan. They both share a deep appreciation that could only be achieved through a complete submersion within it. I frequently tramped eight to ten miles through the deepest snow ... ...

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... radical) essay. As a result of its deviant nature, however, the essay was largely ignored by the public. Both Thoreau and Hawthorne illustrate this social deviance and society's intolerance of it, a reoccurring theme in the Puritan world of the 1600s and an inevitable result of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-1800s. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan community of Boston essentially ... ...

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