Examples Of Transcendentalism In Princess Diaries

In today’s pop culture, a lot of what we read or watch is connected to the transcendentalism movement. Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century. Its ideas were grounded in the claim that divine truth could be known intuitively. It was based in New England and existed in various forms from the 1830s to the 1880s. Transcendentalism is usually considered an expression of romanticism in America. In the movie Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis inhibits a lot of what the transcendentalism is about. In this movie Mia Thermopolis played by Anne Hathaway is thrown for a loop when, from out of the blue, she learns the shocking news that she's a real-life princess. As the heir to the crown of this small European country known as Genovia, Mia begins a journey toward the throne when her strict and tough grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi played by Julie Andrews, shows up to give her "princess lessons." In the movie Mia thinks she is alone and no one can relate to her. Tents that are most prevalent in the movie Princess Diaries are self-reliance, civil disobedience, intuition over reason and confidence because throughout the movie Mia tries to be independent, doesn’t want to do what society tells her, listens to her mind rather than

She tells her grandma that she doesn’t want to be a princess and to find someone else. In this scene of the movie Mia is exhibiting civil disobedience. She is not conforming to what society wants and to do what she is destoned to do. Thoreau wanted people to “let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine,” and not to conform to something you’re not (Thoreau). He is saying that sometimes what the government does will result in occasional injustice. However, if a particular circumstance would require that you impart harm on another person, he's advising you to break the