ts boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment"(4). The German Confederacy was a loose union of thirty-eight independent with no rule. This suggests that a man has no judgment over his life and is not held together and is very diverse. A man has no control of what has happened in his life and will never. Like Emerson's "of Nature", man must focus on what is going to happen and not has already happened. Yet, contrasts strongly with Thanatopsis, with the idea of dieing and then living with your soul regenerated through nature.Cranes novel "The Red Badge of Courage" presents a final and impressive view of man and nature. The speaker in this work, a young man who contributes to the civil war, finds his participation in the battle life changing. This changing point happens when he "went instantly forward, like a dog who, seeing his foes lagging, turns and insists upon being pursued"(94). Henry, the main character in the story, gets so engulfed in the battle he is instantly turned into a "war devil"(95). However, upon retreating from a battle in the woods and apart of nature, he stumbles upon something that changes his life. When retreating into the woods he staggers upon a chapel hidden in the woods. Inside this sanctuary in the woods he finds a "dead man who was seated with his back against a column-like tree[with] eyes, staring at the [him], had changed to the dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish[also] over the grey skin of the face ran little ants"(46). This complexion of this dead soldier in the woods of a church signifies that nature is evil. Nature brings out the war in man. The novel by Crane takes place in nature, this great war is in the woods. This work views nature as being detrimental, and when man is in nature for a long period of time, he becomes evil. This work compares with all of the works very strongly. Cranes view of man and nature reveals t...
