Who Graduated from Harvard
Thoreau
Who became a teacher but was fired really fast
Thoreau
Who wrote the “Minister’s Black Veil”
Hawthorne
Who wrote Billy Budd
Melville
Who died poor despite his writing career
Melville
Who wrote “Civil Disobedience”
Thoreau
Who was ashamed of his puritan ancestors
Hawthorne
Was born in Salem
Hawthorne
Who was known as a philosopher
Emerson
Who wrote Nature
Emerson
Define utopia.
Utopias were “Perfect communities” that sprang up during this time of perfection.
Who was the German philosopher that Transcendentalism is based on?
Immanuel Knat
Transcendentalists believed that man was inherently ______.
good
Describe how Emerson said you could be one with nature.
He becomes transparent because he is ONE with nature. Nature can not make this feeling alone man must use his experiences, senses, and feelings of emotion.
Know the two things that “Self-Reliance” is supposed to teach you.
Trust thyself. Every person has a unique and special purpose
Know two of Emerson’s jobs.
Essayist and Poet
Know two works by Thoreau.
Walden and “Civil Disobedience”
“He went into the woods to live ______.” - Walden
Deliberately
What did anti-trans think about trans?
These writers believed that the Transcendentalists had a much too rosy outlook on life.
narrator from Moby Dick
Ishmael
The captain from Moby Dick
Ahab
The whale from Moby Dick
Moby Dick
The first mate from Moby Dick
Starbuck
The boat from Moby Dick
Pequod
Tell three of Transcendentalist beliefs.
Everything in the world, including human beings, 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 intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.
Two well known anti-Transcendentalists.
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
What are the three levels of Moby Dick?
The surface story
The symbolic level
The philosophical examination
List three of Hawthorne’s reoccurring themes.
Sin
Guilt
Evil
What was “Civil Disobedience” a reaction to?
Getting jailed for not paying his taxes