Essays on Transcendentalism

There is a question of what can makes man good. Can he be good through obedience towards the established institutions, conformity and set of moral standards or will he automatically find goodness through intuition and self reliance? In the short story The Ministers Black Veil, its Puritan setting is full of people who strictly follow…

Boston, in a small Puritan community. Nathaniel Hawthorne evokes transcendentalism and romanticism in a variety of ways throughout the novel, focusing on youthful Innocence, truths of the human hearts, the pureness of the natural world, worth and freedom of the individual, and the ubiquitous idea that the artificial nature of society corrupts. Because of the…

Ralph Emerson wrote many journals and essays dealing with the subject oftranscendentalism. One of his most famous works is the essaySelf-Reliance. In Self-Reliance, Emerson hit on the idea that theindividual should be completely reliant on God, and that every person has beenput into their certain life and position by God and that the person needs…

Transcendentalists were a group of Romantics in the 1800’s led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was considered to be an idealism that many writers of the time believed in, and many stories were based on the core beliefs of this idealism. We know that one of the core beliefs is that understanding all that exists…

Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass., had a grandfather who served as a judge during the Salem witch trials. His original surname was spelled “Hathorne.” Upon completing college, he altered the spelling of his name by appending a “w” to correspond with its pronunciation. Hawthorne possessed an aversion towards school and…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. He was raised by his mother Ruth Haskins and his father Rev. William Emerson until his father’s early death. His Aunt Mary Emerson also played a significant role in his life. At nine years old, he began attending the Boston Latin School and…

Sin, vengeance, evil, and redemption are all words one can associate when thinking about The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. The character who takes the truest form of these negative words is Roger Chlorinating. Hester Prying had married Chlorinating in England, however left her for many years. During those years, Chlorinating spent time with Indians…

According to my perspective, Emily Dickinson, being a transcendentalist, utilized her poetry to depict the act of transcendental meditation, specifically focusing on the meditation regarding death. The poem aims to connect us with our true selves by delving into our consciousness. Its main focus is on exploring the nature of death, which is portrayed as…

The essay “Self-Reliance”, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a persuasive essay promoting the ways of transcendentalism. He uses this paper as a proponent to edify and advance a major point using a structure that helps his argument. In the paper, Emerson begins his concluding thoughts with a statement that greater self-reliance will bring a revolution,…

Transcendentalism influenced the 19th century and emphasized on the value of the individual and intuition. It was an idea that people were at their best when they we self reliant and independent. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the movements most important figure along with his main follower Henry David Thoreau. These two people were the most…