ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau and Emerson emphasized on the transcendentalist idea of human harmony with nature. They believed that nature can help us improve spiritually and help us connect to the rest of the world. According to Transcendental ideas, everything is connected, everything is one.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Key transcendentalism beliefs were that humans are inherently good but can be corrupted by society and institutions, insight and experience and more important than logic, spirituality should come from the self, not organized religion, and nature is beautiful and should be respected.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are many examples of the importance of nature in the trilogy including: natural resources that each of the districts provide to the capital, and the song “Hanging Tree". Each of the 12 districts provide the capital with natural resources such as: coal, masonry, fishing, grain, livestock, agriculture, and lumber.