Why Walden?
What is the purpose of Thoreau's Walden? I don't mean to ask about his conclusion but the more fundamental reason why he wrote Walden. Why was he attracted so much to Transcendentalism? Of course, it's because he found it to be true but why did he decide to write pages and pages, essays and essays about Transcendentalism. Does every believers of certain beliefs write extensively about their beliefs? No. Then, what drove Thoreau to write? What do you guys think? What do you think the people of Thoreau's era have thought?
It just stroke me as people generally ask about the content of his essays but not his reason for writing those essays (probably because some of them are obvious…).
