Examples Of Transcendentalism In The Crucible

Together or Separate The church aged through the history of the United States like a person growing older every year. Likewise, the church has lost its power with the government as an elderly person can’t participate in the things like they used to. Puritans viewed their government and religion as one. Deist viewed things using logic and reason to separate their government and religion. Transcendentalist viewed that they don’t need a religion; they need to connect with nature spiritually. Throughout the major literary philosophies in the United States, one can see how church and state go from being together to completely separate. The puritans has merged church and state together which makes their views biased towards people who do not follow the religions rules. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible written in the 1950s based on what
"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before people can act through it." (Thoreau, 269). Thoreau reflects on the government's position in society and their previous actions that leads him to believe it is not the most reliable. This relates to a transcendentalist society because they believe in self-reliance and free thought. Standing up to moral wrongdoings is a civil transcendentalist duty. "Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient." (Thoreau, 269). Thoreau is explaining how governments should be convenient to society, even though sometimes they are not convenient at all. Transcendentalists believed that organized politics removed their ability to rely on themselves away from them. With the government not being convenient or applying to one's needs, it is going to cause a block in a person's mind, therefore not being able to rely on one's