Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays Summary

"Civil Obedience and Other Essays" contains five of Thoreau's most frequently published essays outlining his unique principles on the role of man in society and his proper relationship to his government, his fellow man, and to nature.

The first essay in the book, entitled "Civil Disobedience" is a call by Thoreau for people to take responsibility for the actions of the government their taxes support. He is writing specifically about the...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

"Civil Disobedience" (Resistance to Civil Government)

3,016 words, approx. 11 pages

"Civil Disobedience" (Resistance to Civil Government) by Henry David Thoreau Born in 1817, Henry David Thoreau retreated to Walden Pond at the age of twenty-eight to escape a life of "quiet despera... Read more

Henry David Thoreau Biographies (7)

Henry David Thoreau

1,813 words, approx. 7 pages

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, a dissenter, and, after Emerson, the outstanding transcendentalist. He is best known for his classic book, "Walden."Though a minority of one, la... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

4,544 words, approx. 16 pages

American philosopher Henry David Thoreau "has for today a special appeal," noted Townsend Scudder in his foreword to the Modern Library edition to Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Scu... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

6,617 words, approx. 23 pages

Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as o... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

3,103 words, approx. 11 pages

John Aldrich Christie best captures the paradoxes and contradictions in Henry David Thoreau's treatment of travel. He characterizes Thoreau as "a man who on the one hand reiterates his disdain for tra... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

20,201 words, approx. 68 pages

In his own day, Henry David Thoreau was little known outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was much admired for his passionate stance on social issues, his deep knowledge of natural... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

3,482 words, approx. 12 pages

Though not a professional philosopher, Henry David Thoreau is recognized as an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as New England Transcendentalism. His ess... Read more

Henry David Thoreau

7,438 words, approx. 25 pages

Biography EssayGenerally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has eme... Read more

Essays & Analysis (8)

Henry David Thoreau: Great Influence to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

831 words, approx. 3 pages

I strongly believe that just as Henry David Thoreau was greatly influenced by the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, (who introduced Thoreau to the ideas of transcendentalism) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thin... Read more

Thoreau and Modern Civil Disobedience

1,470 words, approx. 5 pages

Henry David Thoreau's novel thoughts and opinions regarding civil disobedience influenced America's rebellious side for years to come. Thoreau spent most of his life in Concord, Massachusetts. In fa... Read more

Henry David Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience"

677 words, approx. 3 pages

During his extended residency on Walden Pond of the Brook Farm, Henry David Thoreau was arrested for failure to pay taxes. His response to this incident was the essay "Civil Disobedience," in which he... Read more

An Analysis of "Civil Disobedience"

1,844 words, approx. 7 pages

"Democracy is like the experience of life itself--always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested for adversity(Rooney 383)," said Presid... Read more

Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr

496 words, approx. 2 pages

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride is toward freedom is not the white citizen's councilor or the Ku Klux Klanners, but the white mod... Read more

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

744 words, approx. 3 pages

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience talks about politics, government and the issues concerning these areas today. "Government is best which governs least." This motto means that the government should not h... Read more

Thoreau: Right or Wrong?

1,096 words, approx. 4 pages

Webster's dictionary defines civil disobedience as "refusal to obey governmental demands esp. as a nonviolent and usu. collective means of forcing concessions from the government." Henry Thoreau ... Read more

Thoreau and King on Civil Disobedience

338 words, approx. 2 pages

Thoreau and King In King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," some of Thoreau's ideas of civil disobedience are prevalent. In the letter, King recognizes that the problem of segregation is hindered most... Read more

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