Transcendentalism Test Flashcards
Wrote The Minister’s Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Known as a philosopher
Emerson
Was a teacher, but got fired quickly
Thoreau
Wrote nature and self-reliance
Emerson
Wrote Billy Budd
Herman Melville
Was born in Salem
Hawthorne
Died poor despite his writing career
Herman Melville
Was ashamed of Puritan hypocrisy
Hawthorne
Who was the transcendentalist movement based on
Immanuel Knat
Transcendentalists believe men were inherently ____.
Good
To become one with nature you must become ______.
A transparent eyeball
Self-reliance teaches man to be ____ and ____.
Self-reliant; trust yourself
List two jobs Emerson had
Poet and Preacher
According to Henry David Thoreau, he went into the woods to live _____.
Deliberately
Thoreau wrote ______ and ______
Walden; Civil Disobedience
Anti-transcendentalists believed that transcendentalists had a ____ outlook on life
Rosy
Who was the narrator in Moby Dick
Ishmael
Who is the captain in Moby Dick
Ahab
What are they hunting in Moby Dick
The big white whale
Why did Thoreau go to jail
He refused to pay taxes that funded the Mexican war
What is the ministers black veil symbolic for
Hidden sins
List Herman Melville’s three jobs he had to support his family
Clerk, farmhand, and a teacher
Graduated from Harvard
Thoreau
Who are the two most known anti-transcendentalists
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
What is a utopia
A “perfect community” that sprang up during this time of perfection
Give three anti-transcendentalist principles
- Nature is indifferent, unforgiving, and often unexplainable
- People possess the potential for both good and evil
- The truths of existence are elusive
What are the various levels of Moby Dick
- The surface
- Vengeance and its psychological effects
- Man’s relationship with Nature
