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Emerson believed that society stripped away all individuality and replaced it with what was socially acceptable. He thought that if you went out and isolated yourself from the rest of society and just lived in nature you would be able to find out who you are and what you are capable of. Ultimately, Emerson did not want his true character tainted by the environment he lived in.
Transcendentalists lived lifestyles that mainly focused on the individual and what a person was capable of accomplishing in their lifetime. It was also believed that the only person who had all the answers was you and in order to figure them out, mistakes had to be made and separation from society needed to occur. Emerson embraced this to the fullest and felt society was the enemy of any human being looking for themselves. He didn’t want to get lost within the crowd and wanted to make sure that he was always true to himself through his writing or any situation. To escape the evils of society, he moved......

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