Thoreau and McCandless Comparison

Thoreau and McCandless (as presented in the movie), share a lot of their fundamental motivations to escape and rebel society. The idea of the individual opposed to the community, and the discovery of the true self. But even though, in essence the motivations are the same they approach them from different ways. McCandless shows stronger feelings towards his fusion with the wilderness, and his critique to society is much more political, while Thoreau demonstrates a higher priority to the creation of a self space” in which one is the creator, and then the fusion with nature.