The idea of being educated through natural ways and rejecting the ways of society for becoming educated can be supported by Emile, by Rousseau, and The American Scholar, by Emerson.
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The idea of being educated through natural ways and rejecting the ways of society for becoming educated can be supported by Emile, by Rousseau, and The American Scholar, by Emerson.
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What’s good is that I understand what you’re saying. I can kind of imagine what you would do in this paper.
My biggest concerns are:
1) This paper would not work for your paper assignment, which asks you to pick one theory text and one literary text and craft an argument about how putting an aspect of one in conversation with an aspect of the other changes the way we read one or both of those texts. You have a whole bunch of theory texts and no literary texts, which tells me you haven’t answered the assignment.
2) If this thesis did work for the assignment, I think it would be too broad. You would need to narrow down something more specific about nature that you see across these works.
3) Lastly (but related to 2) you need a so what. Why does it matter that nature (or something particular about nature) can be seen in all of these works? What do we make of that? What does that say about any one of the works or all of them?
ps. “can be supported” is a passive voice formulation.