1. Restate Emerson’s basic opinion about society. Challenge the text
Identify and evaluate the evidence Emerson uses to support that opinion.
Restate Emerson’s basic opinion about society.
Challenge the text
Provide examples from everyday life to support and refute Emerson’s opinion of society.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry David Thoreau

3. Transcendentalism
An intellectual movement of the 19th century. Transcendentalists were interested in the human spirit and thought that an exploration of nature helped people understand universal truths.

4. Transcendentalism
Believed the individual was at the center of the universe, more powerful than any institution whether political or religious (384).

5. Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism lasted on 10 years and only produced two major works: Emerson’s Nature, and Thoreau’s Walden.

6. Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered the “father” of Transcendentalism in many ways.
Struggled with his faith so much, that he began questioning his own beliefs and establishing his own philosophy
As he struggled with his own faith, he struggled with the notion that machines might in the future replace people and the concerned him

7. Nature
What does this work reveal to you about Transcendentalism?

8. Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau was Emerson’s protégé and followed in his footsteps by building a rough cottage in the woods at Walden Pond where he went to live alone in harmony with nature. He also expressed important ideas about change in government control with Civil Disobedience. He stressed the importance of the people as individuals being able to govern themselves.
Abolitionist

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