Alone in the Wilderness

This clip is about a man who is about fifty years old. He decides to go live in the wilderness and stay alone for a while. This alone shows a sign of Transcendentalism. He is off to live alone in nature where his mind can be tranquil with God. So he constructs himself a home out of wood. This is another sign of Transcendentalism because he is being independent and doing all his work by himself. Transcendentalists believed that relying on other people meant that you were weak and that you were not being the person that God made you to be. For example, Emerson said"there is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or for worst, as his portion" The man ended up living in the woods by himself for 35 years before he gave up his home and went back to live with his family.