Contrast "The Masque of the Red Death" and Walden First 3 Body Paragraphs

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the people are killed by a masked figure, otherwise known as the "Red Death". It also shows that the clock stops ticking when everyone dies; which shows its correlation to the life cycle. The anti-transcendentalists, like Poe, would agree with his views on death; the transcendentalists, like Henry David Thoreau show their views on life in their own pieces of literature. In Walden, which was written by Henry David Thoreau, it expresses that everyone should believe in their own thoughts and enjoy life to the fullest. He shows that death is to be ignored and not worried about. In Walden, Thoreau illustrates how life at his cabin at Walden Pond affected his views on society and how the majority conforms to society"s ideas. He shows that each person should believe the importance of their own ideas and appreciate nature because society uses it for granted. Thoreau expresses his ideas on how everyone should appreciate nature by illustrating the same topic in his book Walden. In his ...

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by Edgar Allen Poe, he shows more of an anti-transcendentalist approach to writing by using a more of a dark theme. His writing style describes death, darkness, and opposition towards life. In "The Masque of the Red Death", Poe describes how death comes to everyone and that everyone dies eventually. His story shows the characters trying to enjoy life and ignore death but the "Red Death" gets the better of them in the end of the story. An example of Poe"s anti-transcendentalist writing style would be ""and the rumor of this new presence having spread itself around, there arose at length from the whole company, a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise " then ...

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