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Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism Flashcards

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Graduated From Harvard

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Henry David Thoreau

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Who wrote “The Minister’s Black Veil”?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who wrote Billy Bud?

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Herman Melville

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Who Wrote “Civil Disobedience”?

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Henry David Thoreau

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Who was ashamed of his Puritan ancestors?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who was Born in Salem?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who was the Author of Nature?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Define a utopia

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Utopias were “Perfect Communities” that sprang up during the time of perfection.

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“I went into the woods to live _____.” By:Thoreau in Walden

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Deliberately

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In Moby Dick who is the captain?

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Ahab

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In Moby Dick what is the name of the whale?

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Moby Dick

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In Moby Dick who is the First mate?

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Starbuck

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What is the name of boat in Moby Dick?

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Pequod

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Became a teacher but was fired really early

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Henry David Thoreau

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How Emerson believed you could come one with nature?

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Transparent Eyeball

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Two things that “Self-Reliance” is supposed to teach you

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Trust thyself and every person has a unique and special purpose

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Two of Emerson’s jobs

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Essayist and Poet

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Two works by Thoreau

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Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Three transcendentalist beliefs

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  • 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
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What Anti-Transcendentalists thought about Transcendentalists?

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These writers believed that the transcendentalist has a much too rosy outlook on life

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In Moby Dick, Three levels of writing

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  1. The surface story about the fateful voyage of a whaling ship;an exciting sea adventure
  2. The symbolic level of a bitter man’s quest for vengeance and searching for truth
  3. The philosophical examination of humanity’s relationship to the natural world
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List three of Hawthorne’s recurring things

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Sin
Guilt
Evil

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What was civil disobedience a reaction to?

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Reaction for being jailed for not paying taxes

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Transcendentalists believed that man was inherently _____.

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Good

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Who died poor despite his writing career?

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Herman Melville

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Who was known as a philosopher?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who was the narrator in Moby Dick?

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Ishmael

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German philosopher transcendentalism is based on

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Immanuel Kant

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Who died poor despite his writing career?

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Herman Melville

30
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Two Well Known Anti-Transcendentalism

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

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