Transcendentalists believe that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual. they have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. these themes are expolored in the works of the authors that you have read in this unit. write an essay to analyze the themes in two or more works from this unit. discuss how the themes reflect transcendentalist views

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.

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