3. The reason why I decided to put the top picture into this presentation is
because it depicts most of the people who are considered to be apart of the American
Transcendentalism. These people include Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Louis May Alcott, and George Ripley. The second picture on the bottom left is a picture
of an eye and the reason why I thought that this represented Transcendentalism is
because Transcendentalists believe that knowledge goes beyond the senses and that this
knowledge comes through intuition. The last image on the bottom right is a picture and
quote by Henry David Thoreau, “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
What he means is that if a rule is unjust and everyone is still following it, than stand up
for what you think is right and I think that is a great representation of Transcendentalism.