1998. In his essay
"Walking," Henry David Thoreau offers the following assessment of
literature:
In literature it is only the wild
that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the
uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Illiad, in all scriptures
and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us.
From the works that you have
studied in school, choose a novel, play, or epic poem that you may initially
have thought was conventional and tame but that you now value for its
"uncivilized free and wild thinking." Write an essay in which you
explain what constitutes its "uncivilized free and wild thinking" and
how that thinking is central to the value of the work as a whole. Support your
ideas with specific references to the work you choose.
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