A secondary ideal evident throughout the essay, Economy, was learning and doing for oneself. On multiple occasions, Thoreau mentions that one must rely on something other than the older generations to teach them and tell them what they must do. Instead, he points towards the idea that one must find out and live one’s life in a way that they are…[Read more]

The essay, Economy, focuses on the Thoreau’s opinions of working men as slaves to their own household. He seems to be focusing heavily on working men within their own households, and instead of mentioning that men are slaves to their wife’s, he identifies it as being a slave to their own households and having to deal with both hard working lab…[Read more]