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Emerson, Thoreau, Twain: Transcendentalist Writers
Transcendentalists are believed to go above and beyond and be independent. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both stress that transcendentalism is all about individualism. According to Emerson, the main idea of transcendentalism is to withdraw from society: “To believe you own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men(that is genius” (185). Emerson focuses on following the heart. Similarly, Thoreau relied on civil disobedience. He wanted people to stand out and take charge: “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever” (193). He is saying that it takes one person to stand up and make a change in society. These morals all are portrayed in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Emerson and Thoreau would consider Twain to be a transcendentalist writer. He implies the ways of transcendentalism......

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