LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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living simply and being true to one’s self
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material things
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being kind
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being social
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” stressed social responsibility, intuition, and individualism. These men were very respected then and are still very well known today as great writers, inspiring civil rights leaders and influential minds.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Thoreau and Emerson, individuals are responsible for themselves and should not ask for protection from the state. In his “Self Reliance", Emerson advised men to trust themselves and accept the society of their contemporaries, the connection of events that God found for them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overall, Thoreau took the words Emerson idealized in Self-Reliance and applied it literally in his life. An idea of self-reliance to Thoreau and Emerson both, was to independently and wholly rely on oneself without conformity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerson’s emphasis on self-reliance and nonconformity, his championing of an authentic American literature, his insistence on each individual’s original relation to God, and finally his relentless optimism, that “life is a boundless privilege, ” remain his chief legacies.