Similarities Between Pop Culture And Transcendentalism

Similarity Between Transcendentalism and Modern Pop Culture Even though there is about one hundred and eighty years apart from the year transcendentalism started to the year two thousand seventeen, we can still see many similarities, and some notable differences between these two era. Transcendentalism movement is a philosophical movement that happen in between 1820s to 1830s in the United States. The movement started with Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous philosopher and writer. The main tenets of the philosophy are individualism, connect with nature, and religion. We can see a lot of their ideas still apply in today’s modern society, even after all these years. The one of most important tenet from transcendentalism is to have personal†¦show more content†¦He states that everyone in the universe is composed of nature and soul, we are all the children of nature. In the TV series, Avatar : The Last Airbender, the character, Huu, had said a quote correspond to the idea of nature in transcendentalism. He said, â€Å"You think youre any different from me? Or your friends? Or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. Were all living together, even if most folks dont act like it. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree† (Volpe). Same as the passage from Nature, the quote from Huu has a very similar idea that everyone are composed of nature. They both suggest that everyone is composed of nature, and we as human should realize that. They all concluded we do not really have any difference, since we are all part of nature. Religion is always a big part of people’s life, but not for the transcendentalist. Most of them believe in nature than God. From the essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, there are some paragraphs he talked about the religion and the church. â€Å"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old