Anti Transcendentalism Analysis

Transcendentalism is a major romantic movement during the 19th century. It was a period of romance where people learned to love themselves. The poem Self-Reliance, is by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this excerpt, he emphasizes the traits of being a transcendentalist. The selection Tia Chucha, is by Luis Rodriguez. In the poem, she gossips about her aunt Chucha and her unique personalities. The anecdote Gary Keillor, is by Garrison Keillor. It is about a boy named Gary, who joins a school talent show and encounters many obstacles, both mentally and socially. Transcendentalism is an appealing philosophy because it encourages individuals to rely on themselves, to ignore other’s accusations, and to accept one’s unique place.

The movie, The Incredibles, is a Disney film about a family of superheros trying to maintain their secret identities. They try to maintain ordinary, regular lives after the use of superpowers is suddenly banned by the government for the safety of their cities. All was well and fairly normal until their family was directly targeted by a new villain, Buddy Pine (aka. Syndrome). Despite their progress in the area of living normal lives, they’re throw in a series of tough situations that require the whole family to tap into who they truly are. The Incredibles is a fantastic example of transcendentalism due to the presence of both nonconformity and individualism.

In the beginning of the movie Dead Poets Society, a new English teacher is introduced as Professor John Keating. During his classes, Mr. Keating is shown teaching Transcendentalist and Romanticist ways instead of the more normal way of teaching like the other teachers at Welton Academy practice. Examples of Keating’s different teaching styles include bringing his students outside for different poetry exercises, ripping out pages of their textbook, and influencing the concept of carpe diem, or seize the day. Keating’s way of teaching though, brings up the question of whether or not this brought more grief or more happiness on the students in the movie. Even with some of the terrible outcomes Mr. Keating’s teaching brought, the students of Welton Academy were brought more happiness than grief when acting out their Transcendental and Romantic beliefs.

Transcendentalism is about life in which nature and the soul connect. In the movie Dead Poet Society, one of the characters who shows transcendentalism in Neil Perry. In the movie the students quoted poems and had their alone time with nature. They also relied on themselves and sought the spiritual side of things. Throughout the movie, Neil went to a cave away from people. Furthermore, Neil’s friends joined him to have fun with the Dead Poets Society, a group Neil recreated after hearing that his professor, Mr. Keating, had been involved in when he was a student at Welton. Overall, Neil Perry was a great example of transcendentalism throughout the entire movie.

Dead poets’ society demonstrates non-conformity, spark of divinity, and respect for nature which are all traits of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is something that stands people out from one another, all the traits can make someone their own unique person. Personally I think that people are transcendentalist and that people use the traits everyday of their lives but they don 't even realize it. I feel that their are some people in the world who love transcendentalism and try to live their lives by the traits but then other people don 't even realize what it is but still use it in everyday life. Transcendentalism is a very interesting and cool way to

Transcendentalists were a movement of this time that had both its ups and downs. In other words failure and successes. When it comes to reform movements the things most people really care about is the success of it and if it made any real change to people during the time period. Transcendentalism had an effect on people of the time that really started something completely unheard of and misunderstood. What transcendentalists did was take what was known and look far beyond it. Through literature, speeches, and even teaches that took place in classrooms of the time, people were fascinated and curious about what they were spreading and practicing. It was a quite successful movement until more and more time passed and people realized it wasn’t

In the 1830’s, a group called the transcendentalist arose. It lasted from 1836 to just about 1861. Some people were upset about how the Unitarian church was running things so instead people turned to nature. Basically they believed that any individual was more powerful than any institution. When they created this transcendentalist club they also created rules to go with it. Their rules were basically their beliefs. They believed in an individual’s inner soul leads to the truth. Individual relationships with God was much bigger than anything you could get in a church. Nature played a huge roll in their beliefs. They found the goodness of nature everywhere. To them, all we needed to survive was our mind. The mind is where they

Have you ever been waiting for something different/new to happen in your life; well transcendentalism is for you, it’s filled with excitement, adventure, and simply sticking with your gut on things. McCandless surly represents a transcendentalist life. He’s very good at sticking with his own opinion, doing his own thing (even if everyone else is doing another), and searching for the meaning of life. McCandless is his own person and no one can change that- he finds out things for himself. In a world where people only concentrate on things that are skin deep it’s good to have a transcendentalist life style.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”- Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalism is an American philosophy that revolves around self-reliance and independence, commonly in nature, a Transcendentalist wants to find the true meaning in life. I believe that Chris McCandless was a Transcendentalist because he was able to leave his whole life behind and take on a minimalist lifestyle while having a strong relationship with god. However, I believe that I am not a Transcendentalist, but simply an adventurer. I had the opportunity to go to Mexico and visit the Yucatan rainforest and this lead me to be able to explore nature and feel the peaceful impact it can have on someone 's life.

If there is one person in the past or present that lived a truly transcendental life, many would say it was Alexander Supertramp, otherwise known as Chris McCandless. Throughout the 1990s, this man took transcendentalism to a new level that not many people in this day and age had seen before. In different points in his life, he exhibited all 8 of the main keys of transcendentalism. This paper will touch on just three of those, starting with reducing dependence on property. This is probably the number one key that is seen the most from McCandless in Into The Wild.

The movie Dead Poets Society has quite a few connections with the world of transcendentalism. The movie ties in with some of the writings and themes. It also talks about a transcendentalist writing directly in the movie. The movie is about a group of boys who learn to express themselves and decided who they want to be. They learn this because of their teacher in Mr. Keating and the Dead Poets Society, which they found out about because of Mr. Keating.

Transcendentalism has been around since the mid-1800’s. It is a philosophical belief which introduced a new way understanding truth and knowledge. According to the transcendentalists, if knowledge could be found, it would derive from our intuition and contemplation of the internal soul and spirit, rather than relying on data from scientific evidence. Henry David Thoreau demonstrated his goal of self search and getting back in tune with nature by living in a self-built cabin for 2 years at Walden Pond. He arrived the knowledge of himself through reconnecting with nature. Our senior project is a near replication of Thoreau’s process to reach self knowledge. Instead of building a cabin in the woods, we decided documented our adventure through film to evidence our experience of reconnection to nature to serve as a medium for meditation to reach self enlightenment.

During the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were considered to be prominent figures in the area of the new practice of transcendentalism. Both men had similar beliefs and often shared each other’s goals and teachings. Both Emerson and Thoreau found that nature was a window into the ultimate state of deep thought, though they disagreed on man’s role, as Thoreau believes that man must actively partake of nature, while Emerson took the passive stance of an onlooker.

*In short it’s how an author defines religion, nature, evil, etc. It’s their way of writing

Anti transcendentalist and author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduces his way of writing and beliefs through The Scarlet Letter. The novel takes place during Puritan time, in the 1600s and tells the story of Hester Prynne and her scarlet letter. Hawthorne uses numerous people and objects to symbolize the represented idea or quality within each character or item. In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the wild rose bush, Hester’s cabin and Pearl to contribute to the theme of Good vs. Evil.