LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Glory of God
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Spiritual Awareness
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Joy of Humanity
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Evilness of Humanity
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Detailed explanation-1: -The anti-transcendentalist felt humans were depraved and had to struggle for goodness. Although they thought goodness was attainable for some, they believed in evil as its own entity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Anti-Transcendentalism was an opposition movement to the Transcendentalist. The Transcendentalist were writers who supported the beauty of Nature, the kindness of Humans and a distrust in government.
Detailed explanation-3: -The contrasting philosophy anti-Transcendentalism was a small philosophical movement predominantly consisting of only two writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. These two were leaders of a movement that dared to go against the conventional belief.
Detailed explanation-4: -“The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, the actual story takes places in the 1600’s in a Puritan society. Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist. An anti-transcendentalist means that humans are naturally evil, society keeps them in check and nature is evil.
Detailed explanation-5: -Simplistic Living. Self-Reliance. Importance of Nature. Spirituality. Spirituality. Simplistic Living. Self-Reliance.