ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Nonconformity: a noun, failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice” (Nonconformity, 2017). Nonconformity is major theme in Transcendentalism along with nature, carpe diem, and simplicity of life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalism Characteristics. Transcendentalism was heavily focused on seeking individual truth and growing to become more and more self-reliant. However, the movement can be described using three essential characteristics or principles: individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The transcendentalist movement encompassed many beliefs, but these all fit into their three main values of individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nonconformity to the transcendentalist is simply ignoring the pressures of society to conform to the greater will of society in favor of following one’s own heart and one’s own gut.

Detailed explanation-5: -These all echo the major principles of transcendentalism: freethinking, self reliance and non conformity, growth and renewal of the individual, revolt against tradition and established institutions, civil disobedience, brotherhood of man, nature and spiritual unity, and educational reform.