significance in the USA, where it so largely dominated the New England authors as to become a literary movement as well as philosophic conception. The movement gained its impetus in America in part from meetings of a small group which came together to discuss the "new thought" of the time. While holding different opinions about many things, the group seemed in general harmony in their conviction that within the nature of man there was a something which transcended human experience an intuitive and personal revelation. Variously called the Symposium Club and the Hedge Club, the group was soon known as the Transcendental Club because of the ideas advanced by its members. As the "movement" developed, it sponsored two important activities: the publication of The Dial from 1840-44 and Brook Farm. Some of the various doctrines which one or another of the American transcendentalist promulgated and which have
more mental instability, which eventually lead to her suicide. Her writing is often called “new prose”; musical quality – the rhythm and imagery of poetry. Limitations of the self that could be transcended by engagement with another self, a place, or a work of art. Stream of consciousness. Problems of identity, relationships, time, change, memory as part of the human personality. Woolf believed she offered an alternative to the destructive egotism of the masculine
structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones. Most crawling reptilians, the most earthbound of all creatures, have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers and wings and turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn’t become better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling and walking entirely. Since time immemorial, flowers, crystals, precious stones, and birds have held special significance for the human spirit. Like all life-forms, they are, of course, temporary manifestations of the underlying one Life, one Consciousness. Their special significance and the reason why humans feel such fascination for and affinity with them can be attributed to their ethereal quality.
DEALING W I T H DEATH At the heart of every story is a confrontation with death. If the Hero doesn't face actual death, then there is the threat of death or symbolic death in the form of a high-stakes game, love affair, or adventure in which the Hero may succeed (live) or fail (die). Heroes show us how to deal with death. T h e y may survive it, proving that death is not so tough. T h e y may die (perhaps only symbolically) and be reborn, proving that death can be transcended. T h e y may die a Hero's death, transcending death by offering up their lives willingly for a cause, an ideal, or a group. True heroism is shown in stories when Heroes offer themselves on the altar of chance, willing to take the risk that their quest for adventure may lead to danger, loss, or death. Like soldiers who know that by enlisting they have agreed to give their lives if their country asks them to, Heroes accept the possibility of sacrifice.
The intensity of the couple's feelings and actions has always been a source of wonderment and puzzlement to observers of the play. How could such inordinate devotion develop so quickly in a pair so young? A romantic might suggest rare and perfect love. A social scientist, though, might point to the role of parental interfer- ence and the psychological reactance it can produce. Perhaps the passion of Romeo and Juliet was not initially so consuming that it transcended the extensive barriers erected by the families. Perhaps, instead, it was fueled to a white heat by the place- ment of those barriers. Could it be that had the youngsters been left to their own I AnticiPa~ing a Future 11 Need(/e) © 2008. Reprinted Courtesy of Bunny Hoest and Parade Magazine. 200nAI l~ <&0
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