In the movie, Office Space the main character Peter Gibbons faces dilemmas in life that lead him to that fact that all he needs is himself. Peter becomes self-reliant which leads to him lying in bed all of Saturday when he was supposed to come into work and finish those TPS reports. The initial transcendentalism philosophy was that relying on yourself and only yourself for happiness. Peter Gibbons was shacked up in his apartment all day and it was the best day of his life.
Peter Gibbons says, “I did nothing all day and it was everything I thought it could be.” This relates back to transcendentalism because peter only needed himself to explore the greatest of being home and to not work. Peter did whatever he wanted to make himself feel happy. Peter hated going to work, it was hell on earth “So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.” Peters main source of unhappiness was work, so he stopped going. …show more content…
When Peter is sitting in his cubicle just after his 10 bosses come to tell him the same mistake he made on the TPS cover sheets, he turns over to his co-worker Milton and asks him to turn down his radio. This is an example of transcendentalism because Peter was relying on Milton to turn down the radio which would have made peter happy, but Milton only finds his happiness from listening to his radio from a “reasonable volume.” Once peter tests what relying on yourself brings you he finds all the happiness in the world, but Milton has not tried relying on himself until his best buddy (the red stapler) is taken away from him. After this he is fed up with work and his bosses so he decides to light the building on fire. This breaks Milton from those chains and exposes him to the self-relying