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Grizzly Man Documentary Analysis

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Dear Timothy Treadwell, Society is something that is hard to keep up with. By watching the documentary you filmed, Grizzly Man, I can say that you were beginning to get soaked up in it until you started living with the bears. Your ideas did follow the aims of transcendentalism. Being in the wilderness was where you got your true happiness. Although Herzog focused more on your death than the things you had to do to survive modern society, it did do a great job by expressing the feelings you had towards these bears and nature. As the documentary said, you were becoming a drug addict and an alcoholic. Living in Alaska took those two horrific things away from you. Transcendentalism aims to purify your soul and your body, relying solely

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