Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism Flashcards
Graduated From Harvard
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote “The Minister’s Black Veil”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote Billy Bud?
Herman Melville
Who Wrote “Civil Disobedience”?
Henry David Thoreau
Who was ashamed of his Puritan ancestors?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was Born in Salem?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was the Author of Nature?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Define a utopia
Utopias were “Perfect Communities” that sprang up during the time of perfection.
“I went into the woods to live _____.” By:Thoreau in Walden
Deliberately
In Moby Dick who is the captain?
Ahab
In Moby Dick what is the name of the whale?
Moby Dick
In Moby Dick who is the First mate?
Starbuck
What is the name of boat in Moby Dick?
Pequod
Became a teacher but was fired really early
Henry David Thoreau
How Emerson believed you could come one with nature?
Transparent Eyeball
Two things that “Self-Reliance” is supposed to teach you
Trust thyself and every person has a unique and special purpose
Two of Emerson’s jobs
Essayist and Poet
Two works by Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Three transcendentalist beliefs
- Everything in the world, including human being, is a reflection of the divine soul
- The physical faces of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual world
- People can use their institution to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls
What Anti-Transcendentalists thought about Transcendentalists?
These writers believed that the transcendentalist has a much too rosy outlook on life
In Moby Dick, Three levels of writing
- The surface story about the fateful voyage of a whaling ship;an exciting sea adventure
- The symbolic level of a bitter man’s quest for vengeance and searching for truth
- The philosophical examination of humanity’s relationship to the natural world
List three of Hawthorne’s recurring things
Sin
Guilt
Evil
What was civil disobedience a reaction to?
Reaction for being jailed for not paying taxes
Transcendentalists believed that man was inherently _____.
Good
Who died poor despite his writing career?
Herman Melville
Who was known as a philosopher?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was the narrator in Moby Dick?
Ishmael
German philosopher transcendentalism is based on
Immanuel Kant
Who died poor despite his writing career?
Herman Melville
Two Well Known Anti-Transcendentalism
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
