ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -10. 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-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism is a philosophy that began in the mid-19th century and whose founding members included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It centers around the belief that spirituality cannot be achieved through reason and rationalism, but instead through self-reflection and intuition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalists were idealistic and optimistic because they believed they could find answers to whatever they were seeking. All they had to do was learn to read, through their intuition, the external symbols of nature and translate them into spiritual facts.

Detailed explanation-5: -How is the concept of solitude portrayed in both Society and Solitude and Chapter I of Nature? Solitude is acknowledged as unnecessary. Solitude is encouraged by most people in society.