Thoreau And Thomas Paine Differences

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Marianna Novello

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The American literature is made of great writers, who stood up in different times of the history to passionate people and to express their thoughts. But not all of them expressed the same thoughts, of course, because not all of them lived in the same period of the history. Most of them are still famous nowadays, for their great passion and for how they enchanted the readers with their style and ideology.

Two authors that really stucked in my head are Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Paine. THey were born in completely different times, and they of course expressed different thoughts from one another.

A first basic difference is held by their thoughts, according to which era they were born in. In fact, Thoreau was a transcendentalist, a person who tries to not be attached to material things, but instead to try and be closer to the nature. While Paine was a Deist, so basically he believed that God had created the Universe, but remained apart from it. As we can see, the difference is very clear.
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Thoreau was the leader of the Transcendentalism. He was really versatile writer, who was also a perfectionist. He revised his work over and over, to try and find that perfection that, following his thought, was only in the literature and in the words. Over and over he tried to find the spiritual development in his writing as a pursue. He cared little about formalities and avoided overemphasis. He also used a lot of techniques, such as exaggeration, paradox and