Part one of term paper
was born and raised in a conventional New England home in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Her entire family was Christian, but she alone abandoned their religion and opposed the Church. She, like many of her peers, had rejected the rigid traditional views in favor of adopting the new transcendental perspective. This emergence of Transcendenta ...

Part two of term paper
... religious revivals that spread across America the New Englanders began to question the old ways. What used to be a focal point of all lives became speculative and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. Ralph Waldo Emerson set the tone for the age when he stated, “Who so would be (hu)man, must be non-conformist.” believed and practiced this philosophy. Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already differ ...