Both the Transcendentalists and the Dissenters agree on one thing, find the meaning of life, but they disagree on mostly everything else. Transcendentalist's writings were generalized by poetic verse and journal entrys; however, Dissenters wrote fiction in the form of short story or novels. Transcendentalists thought that man and nature are good but, the Dissenters disagreed thinking that man and nature was both good and evil. The Dissenters were more of a somber, darker, tragic tone. I myself would have to lean toward the ideas of the Dissenters. I favor that way because to me they views seem more realistic. Man is not just good, it is both good and evil and I agree with that.

ntic traditions. They believe that you go to nature to meditate to find those basic truths.

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