ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How does this image represent Transcendentalism?
A
Transcendentalists don’t appreciate jokes.
B
Transcendentalists believe each person should bring their own perspective situations.
C
Transcendentalism means to observe from a higher view point
D
Insects represent the strength of Transcendentalists.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalists advocated the idea of a personal knowledge of God, believing that no intermediary was needed for spiritual insight. They embraced idealism, focusing on nature and opposing materialism.

Detailed explanation-2: -They saw the individual as pure, and they believed that society and its institutions corrupted this purity. Transcendentalists highly valued the concept of thinking for oneself and believed people were best when they were independent and could think for themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Transcendentalists revered nature in a divine sense. Nature was not subordinate to them, but instead nature was the other part of a symbiotic relationship. This analogy is the creed of the transcendental view of nature and of man as individual.

Detailed explanation-4: -What are the transcendental elements in Emerson’s self-reliance? Five predominant elements of Transcendentalism are nonconformity, self-reliance, free thought, confidence, and the importance of nature.

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