LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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technology and man’s capacity for improvement
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the supernatural and man’s capacity for evil
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art and man’s capacity for creativity
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -Gothic writers believed that the ideas of transcendentalists were too optimistic. They viewed life as menacing and tragic, and instead created a new genre that was filled with their own beliefs of the realities of evil and an individual prone to sin and self destruction.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dark Romanticism began as a response to the Transcendental movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This was a mental shift in thinking from rigid religious Puritan/Anglo-Saxon thought to a dark, immoral point of view. People were disinterested in optimism when they considered their sin and human nature.