Examples Of Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism Today The transcendentalist movement started in 1836 as a reaction to the age of reason. It challenged everyone’s reliance on science and facts and emphasized imagination and self-thought. There were many influential writers who are said to have started the transcendentalist movement. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are among there great transcendentalist writers. Their stories, The Ambitious Guest and The Fall of the House of Usher embody the nature of transcendentalists.
Transcendentalists had a deep appreciation for nature and the fact that it can’t be controlled by man, many writers during this time put a big emphasis on the tranquility and peace that comes along with being in nature away from the rest of the
First off, the family living in the hotel have an agreement with the mountain, if that doesn’t scream transcendentalist then I don’t know what does. The agreement that they have is that as long as the family keeps running the hotel and taking in travelers then they will be safe. As soon as the mountain feels like the family is taking it for granted it send them a sign “’the old mountain has thrown a stone at us, for fear we should forget him,"’ said the landlord, recovering himself.” One day however this man stops by the hotel. He starts talking about what kind of legacy he wants to leave saying “"as yet, I have done nothing. Where I to vanish from the earth to-morrow, none would know so much of me as you: that a nameless youth came up at nightfall from the valley of the Saco”. The family suddenly starts to think about what kind of legacy they want to leave and they finally start to think that it’s time for them to venture out of their home and see what else there is besides the mountain. As soon as the get deep in these thoughts an avalanche hits, they leave their house, and boom they all die. The story tells the reader that one should be appreciative of nature because at any given time it can do whatever it wants with no