LITERATURE II

DATE: May 16th, 2016

TRANSCENDENTAL BY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

COMMENT

This book talks about the Louisa May Alcott’s family life. She was the daughter of Bronson
Alcott, a Transcendentalist philosopher and teacher, and Abba May Alcott, who was one of
the first professional social workers in Boston. This family with her three sisters lived in
Concord, Massachusetts. She and her sisters were the subject of her father’s educational
experiments.

I think this book is a feminist novel and shows us about the feminist criticism, because
Louisa says that the men can seek freedom to intellectualize and work in their own ideas,
instead the women have to cook, teach the children, they also take care the husband and the
house. So those were a big responsibility for the women with the society, because the
family is the fundamental pillar in the society. The book demonstrates the struggles
between her father’s philosophy and her mother’s character.

I think the book shows us about the male philosophy because they thing that the women
can’t do the same things as they do. The women have the same rights as the men, so we can
have the same freedom and do the ideas and that we have, obviously we need to be
responsible with our all decisions and the men have to do the same and take the same
responsibilities as the women.

Each character demonstrates a different behave. The sisters have each one a different
character and believe about the life.