A TIme period like no other
The Transcendentalist era, like the Modern Era, was a backlash to the conventional age of Rationalism. Part of the Romantic period, this era was found based on the erasing of the need for humans. The dependency on machine during the 1800s deleted the face. It deleted the individual. People were blending in to the grey area of society, but the Transcendentalist movement reversed this. Transcendentalism revived the human identity by :
-Reviving self reliance and individualism
-Encouraging the use of intuition shown through peace with self, nature, and all other parts of the Divine Soul
-Revealing that everything is a reflection of the Divine soul
This reversion of the blending of society died as people became more and more dependent on machines and inanimate objects. The ideas of the Transcendentalist movement still remain, however, and are seen through the American Dream of obtaining and pursuing identity. One individual is identical to no other and no other truly knows another's nature, making no to identities exactly alike.
-Reviving self reliance and individualism
-Encouraging the use of intuition shown through peace with self, nature, and all other parts of the Divine Soul
-Revealing that everything is a reflection of the Divine soul
This reversion of the blending of society died as people became more and more dependent on machines and inanimate objects. The ideas of the Transcendentalist movement still remain, however, and are seen through the American Dream of obtaining and pursuing identity. One individual is identical to no other and no other truly knows another's nature, making no to identities exactly alike.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's quote sums up the American dream- it is what lies within and what is inside one is not like what is inside another. It is what makes the individual the individual. Again, no two American Dreams are the same as they are what makes each, single person happy and at peace.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's quote sums up the American dream- it is what lies within and what is inside one is not like what is inside another. It is what makes the individual the individual. Again, no two American Dreams are the same as they are what makes each, single person happy and at peace.