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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe thesis writer chooses to discuss Walden or Life in the Woods since it is the
best well-known book of Thoreau. Moreover, the book has its uniqueness in its
language and style. In the beginning, the main character of Walden, the narrator,
seems to be dissatisfied with his society. He leaves his society to live alone in the
woods. Thus, after staying a while in the woods, he conforms his mind and lives
back again in society. the thesis writer wants to analyze the narrator?s inability to
live in his environment and the narrator?s way of compromising his idealism to
society. With the use of theory of conflict, the thesis writer tries to analyze the
narrator?s inability to live in the society and in the woods. As he lives in society,
he has inability to live among his townsmen because of his idealism. While in the
woods, the narrator has the inability to live alone. He is unable to face the severe
winter, his loneliness and despair, and to change John Field?s and a Canadian
woodcutter?s idealism. Experiencing both living in society and woods, the
narrator learns that it needs a change of mind to see the things differently and to
compromise his idealism with the reality.