Transcendentalism In Henry Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, And Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism is a way of thinking that found its footing in the 1800s and was influenced by Platonism, romanticism, and the Kantian way of thinking. What resulted from this was a way of thinking that persuades people that because humans came from nature, humans will always feel at home with nature and that one’s self independence and and self reliance will lead them this idea. Some of the main leaders transcendentalism are Henry Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism had great ideas that were implemented into society perfectly, while some ideas were not so great, in fact, some were horrible.
The process of transcendentalism can be summed up into around seven processes in no particular order of execution.
The processes are nature, contemplation, reading, writing, conversation, own space and time, and creative expression. (Transcendentalism for the New Age, Rosecrans) Nature, contemplation, personal space and time, and creative expression all have to deal with the individual. Henry Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne both have these ideas in their pieces of literature