Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe are some of the many famous authors that have written the Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism books that many people know today. In the late 18th Centuries and in the early 19th Centuries, is when Romanticism became recognized as a type of literature. I believe that the Transcendentalists are correct about what it means to be a human because they emphasize individualism, self-reliance, and independence, they strongly believe in living closer to nature, and they believe
Present Day Transcendentalism Charles Mayo Ellis summarizes the Transcendentalist philosophy consummately: “Transcendentalism maintains that man has ideas, that come not through the five senses, or the powers of reasoning; but are... the result of direct revelation from God…”("Quotes About Transcendentalism”). In other words, Transcendentalism is a philosophy that encourages rebellion against customary traditions in order to realize ideals that transcend custom or tradition. Many people are transcendentalists
In Nature To better understand Transcendentalism, I referred back to a Unitarian Minister named William Ellery Channing. The text mentions the opposition Transcendentalists had with Unitarianism, such as “cold rationality and materialism”, but they both shared the belief that the “power of human intuition” was at the core of being close to God (Belasco and Johnson 730). Transcendentalists needed to relate to God, or be at one with Him, in a private, personal setting. They believed in “the spiritual
Transcendentalism was a popular mindset among many different great thinkers during the time in which it was popular. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are credited as more important transcendentalists, many other people still write with a transcendental mindset. The ideas that Emerson and Thoreau publicized made their way into many different works, including Walt Whitman's poetry. Though there are many different ideas and themes encompassed in his poetry, the ideas of self-reliance
Todd Anderson once said, “I’m not like you, alright? You say things and people listen. I’m not like that,” causing us to realize how powerless Todd thought he was. Todd Anderson, a quiet, timid teenager beginning his career at Welton was the youngest in his family of four, with extremely high expectations placed on him. His older brother, who became a lawyer, was a Valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar at Welton University, which is why Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had such great expectations for Todd
adultery. However, some may see Hester as an anti-transcendentalist. One could say that she was forced into committing these transcending acts because of her situation. That she is not a true transcendentalist. Throughout this book, Hester is a good example of sticking by what you believe and not letting others tell her what to