Transcendental Writers
Much of transcendental thought is focused on the importance of the individual and finding purpose where?
What is nature?
This character best represents the corruption present in society.
Who is Chillingworth?
Text allegorically connects to this event in history.
What is McCarthy era/Trials?
Symbolic of uniqueness; protection
What is the red hunting hat?
Who wrote "Learn'd Astronomer"
Who is Walt Whitman?
In "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau makes what assertion about the government?
What is "the government is best which governs least"?
This represents the division between Puritan Society and Transcendental freedom.
What is the brook in the woods?
Which character could represent corruption in the court?
Who is Danforth?
What does Holden believe it means to be the catcher in the rye?
Protecting and saving children from adulthood and losing their innocence.
The Crucible takes place in this year.
What is 1692?
This piece examines what happens when the individual lives simply and deliberately.
What is Walden?
Juxtaposes hidden sin with perceived purity.
Who is Dimmesdale?
Which character BEST represents how easily society can become corrupted?
Who is Mary Warren?
This represents the struggle to adapt to change while simultaneously providing comfort that all change is temporary.
What are the ducks in Central Park?
Name of the prostitute in Catcher.
Who is Sunny?
This author presents the benefits of worshiping God outside the Church setting.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
What is the prison door symbolic of?
What is society' immediate focus on sin and punishment?
This character misuses church funds.
Who is Parris?
What is the significance of the Gold Ring on the carousel?
Realization that sometimes you have to let children "fall"
Which transcendentalist writer was arrested for not paying taxes?
Who is Thoreau?
Emerson largely criticizes this in "Self-Reliance"
What is conformity?
This character is the embodiment of Transcendental thought.
Who is Pearl?
Name 2 John Proctor doesn't confess to save his life.
What is (a) it would reward him over the others who have refused to confess (b) lessen the deaths of the others who have been accused (c) taint his family name (d) show approval for the court’s decisions and actions
Name 3 allusions present in the text
What is Romeo and Juliet, Ring Lardner, Emily Dickinson, Out of Africa, The Return of the Native, Hamlet, David Copperfield, Lord Randal, Comin' Thro' the Rye, The Great Gatsby, etc.?
Allie's baseball glove has this color writing on it.
What is green?