Examples Of Transcendentalism In Beast Of The Southern Wild

Henry David Thoreau stated in Walden that “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life” (“What I Lived For 59). The transcendental lifestyle, as explained by Thoreau, is structured by the beliefs of purifying the mind and body from the corruption of modern society and its materialistic ideals. Embracing the spiritual aspects that nature provides allows us to grow physically and intellectually as a human, and ultimately finding our individual purposes in life. Both the book, Into the

By experiencing the lives of a transcendentalist and appreciating the beauty of nature, both Chris McCandless and Hushpuppy are able to find a peaceful sanctuary where they belong, mature and become more independent through their struggles, and eventually reach a “transcended” state that allows them to help others find their own ways to self-fulfilment. Throughout the novel, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless demonstrated a powerful attraction towards nature and a burning passion to be experience the wilderness and live a pure life. When Chris McCandless first encountered the old yellow bus, he had written in his journal: “Two years he walks the Earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom...No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild” (Krakauer 163). Chris McCandless despised the way society felt like a cage to him, which is why he took off into the wild and remained there in nature as “the freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good