Herman Melville: Anti-Transcendentalism and Symbolism

Throughout the history of the United States, few writers get the so-called greatness. Herman Melville is one of the few people. However, the process by which Melville became one of the earliest American largest writers was not simple. As an author writing the center of the era of the American renaissance and transcendence, people believe that people chose to break the molds when they are with nature and God. In the face of many difficulties of life, Herman Melville became a writer known for his anti-transcendental style, but perhaps the most underestimated writer of his era.

In this article we compare the philosophy of transcendence and anti - transcendence through Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville 's works. In Thoreau's "Walden" section, he tested the transcendental philosophy through experience. Emerson's extraordinary writing style is shown in "Nature". In excerpt from Melville's "Moby Dick", he showed transcendentalism in his work. Transcendental sentences are related to the relationship between human spirit and nature. The transcendental thinkers believe that everything that happens in nature should happen.

Melville's main focus in his classic novel "Moby Dick" is the evil of mankind, the focus of his anti-transcendental philosophy. In The Moby Dick, Melville reveals evil and nature to humans through humans and nature through his thoroughly developed plot and character, and the constituent elements of the theme layer of personal motivation of almost all characters. An analysis of Melville's own motivation will help reveal inferences behind the example of each human evil author in the novel. In order to fully understand his anti - transcendence belief, it is first necessary to understand the origin of anti - transcendence. Transcendence is a term related to Emerson-Solo's belief, including the existence of Oversoul and including human beings as the default benevolent tendencies. Writer like Melville in this period opposed a priori opinion

This perceptual American format concentrates on writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. In contrast to transcendent perfectionism, these dark contemporaries emphasize difficulties inherent in attempting human error, simple crime and self-destruction, and social reform. French writers such as Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud answered the dark theme in German and British literature. The board rail was the first one of French writers who admired Edgar Allan Poe, but even this admiration and Poe's worship also circulated widely in the literary circles of France in the late nineteenth century.