The American Transcendentalism Movement In The 19th Century

American transcendentalism is the movement begin in the mid of 1830s and the mid of 1840s, as a religious and a philosophical discussion by few ministers and has gained a lot of importance and became a dominant movement. The Transcendentalism movement is closely related to Unitarianism, in the early nineteenth century which was the very dominant and the powerful religious movement in Boston. It started to develop in the aftermath of Unitarianism taking hold at Harvard University. Many great people were involved in this fantastic movement to awake the people of their country; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Peabody, George Ripley, Orestes Brownson, and some others. Thus, the transcendentalists were the …show more content…
As they had already gained the independence from the Great Britain, but still they need to achieve independency in literacy. The great Transcendentalists also wanted to create the sense of literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other form of writing among the common people that were not existed. The Transcendentalists had a strong believes that the society make the individual impure, as the society is the one who create the political parties and well as religious opinion and which ultimately effect the individual and make them corrupted. They had faith that people possess strong position when they truly believes in their selves and are …show more content…
But there are also many under-developed countries and some places in this country, in which people believes in superficial facts, which really does not have any existence, and do not have an intellectual opinions, because whatever their family and the society explains, they warmly accepts it, and possess strong faith in them, in spite of having trust among their selves and have no interest to reveal the truth behind this complex world. That is the main factor of their unawareness. It is the main issue which needs to be resolve, to make this entire world advanced and modern; hence, even in 2016 still there is much need of another movement like American transcendentalism to make them educated and to evoke the sense of literature, philosophy, truth, facts, develop believes in their selves; the best way to make them educated is by involving them in the movement, like through campaigns, through internet, polling, via news channel and there are many other ways which helps them to nourish their believes and ideas. Another big problem is revolving all round is about the racism, which not only effect an individual but also effects many communities, as many people still believes in divisions and classes, they do not want to live or work with the person who is not similar to