Project 5

Transcript

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Nature lets the individual be at free in their natural state 

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Evidence to prove it

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The evidence can be shown by the novel "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin where our main character, Edna, uses nature, the ocean as a way to be free and the short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Nature" where he expla- ins how  nature makes him feel free.

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"Nature" by Emerson

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Emerson explains how in nature he feels free and that it is the purest form. "There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, which nature cannot repair"(Emerson 9). He shows how it helps him feel free. In nature he is his truest self not bond by society, culture, and norms  as others would be. 

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"The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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Edna in the book is an oppressed women in a failing relationship. She has limited or no freedom at all. She finds that freedom in the ocean. Bylearn ing to swim she is reborn. She feels like something new and free