LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Society helps people achieve their potential.
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We must accept society’s rules whether we agree with them or not.
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Society is all accepting force that denies no one.
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Society conspires to deny people their individual freedoms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members” Society seeks conformity. Society wants to impose government, rules, law on its people so they can be puppet-like. Emerson proposes that men live based on their own individual instincts thereby creating their own internal law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson believed that individualism, personal responsibility, and nonconformity were essential to a thriving society. But to get there Emerson knew that each individual had to do the work on themselves to be able to achieve this level of individualism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Individualism “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerson believed that people needed to be more like children who are more authentic than adults because society has not yet pressured them to conform to its standards. In the essay, Emerson touts the primary goals of transcendentalism: individualism, nonconformity, and intuition.
Detailed explanation-5: -In “Self-Reliance” Emerson defines individualism as a profound and unshakeable trust in one’s own intuitions.