The play of Walden was one that I personally found as boring and unentertaining. Not saying that there is not anything important that we can get out of it. The play had very simple aspects to do with it, the setting, the plot, and the message. I felt like the characters were not really changing and that there wasn't much progression between act one and two. The play was poor representation of Through's isolation and what he got out of it. The characters would read a random quote and give it a meaning relevant to them and not what it was intended about.
The setting was simple in that it consisted of the interior of his cabin without any of the walls. Some simple props and in the play the setting never really changed from when the play started
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There was the old man who was employed by Through's parents who was there to provide the comic relief to some of the grimmer quotations of the play and the confusing parts in the play. Then there was the woman who provided the real-world rationalities that Through isolated himself from and called him out for acting the way he did.
I felt that several people arguing in a room does not make a good play, and when a new character was introducing they would go and be quiet in a corner. The story wasn’t very prominent and it seemed to be an amalgamation of quotes by these two famous authors and that was about it. The characters never went through any large significant change other that beginning to bicker about a new subject.
Through feared urbanization yet to the extreme of completely hiding away from the city and isolating himself. Emerson was a more logical in his point of trying to preserve a piece of the land from the progress. Through was just an irrational tree hugger who didn’t see the big picture and feared the something that would be considered small today. But he made his point of how the preservation of nature is important and that there should be something allowing us to slow down and look at what we are