LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Question
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When he learns what other people’s purpose in life is
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When he follows the crowd for the first time
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When he puts his heart into his work
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when he finally gives up on things
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Detailed explanation-1: -“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.” Emerson tells us to take action and get to work. He tells us that to envy great and successful people is to be ignorant.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his essay, “Self Reliance, ” Emerson’s sole purpose is the want for people to avoid conformity. Emerson believed that in order for a man to truly be a man, he was to follow his own conscience and “do his own thing.” Essentially, do what you believe is right instead of blindly following society.
Detailed explanation-3: -I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerson convinces his readers that the relationship between man and nature is sacred, comforting, and vital for survival.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ralph Waldo Emerson-The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.