As a follower of transcendentalism, Thoreau projected individualism in his literary works, Walden and "Civil Disobedience." ... To Thoreau, nature was a living being. ... Thoreau knew slavery was wrong. ... Thoreau argued in "Civil Disobedience" that "it is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. ... Another point that Thoreau argues in "Civil Disobedience" is that there are good laws and bad laws. ...

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Thinkers Emerson and Thoreau were two critical thinkers who valued nature as a big part of their life. ... For this reason, Emerson and Thoreau argue that solitude and society are the most focused topic in their works because of Solitude's ability to give you more freedom instead of living under the rights of unjust laws and Society exploiting you to opportunities with education and grammar. Thoreau argues that living in solitude gives you more freedom instead of living under rights of unjust laws. ... Thoreau says, "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we e...

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Henry David Thoreau helped to propel this movement, expressing his own deviance through writing. "Civil Disobedience" argues against the legitimacy of government and laws, and is Thoreau's most famous (and radical) essay. ... In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau lashes out against the existence of government. "That government is best which governs not at all," he says (Thoreau, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1792). ... The 1800s, on the other hand, were inundated by an emerging consumerist society, which Thoreau adamantly rejected. ...

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"If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260). ... "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity" (Thoreau, Walden, 253). ... "Our life is frittered away by detail" (Thoreau, Walden, 252). ... Emerson and Thoreau were very innovative men. ... For, as Emerson said, "If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260)....

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Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an anti-slavery platform. ... The quaint, idealistic notions of Emerson and Thoreau were nothing more than quaint, idealistic notions. ... Thoreau borrows a line from Antigone that sums up his experience well, "It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey"(11). ... The arrogance of Self-Reliance and Civil-Disobedience establ...

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He stated that "things do not change; we change" (Thoreau 409). ... In "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau "urg[es] people to resist the governmental policies with which they disagree" (Prentice Hall 412). ... Thoreau protested against the government due to the war between Texas and Mexico. Thoreau states " 'That [the] government is best which governs least' 'That government is best which governs not at all'" (Thoreau 412). ... Dickinson saw life in a completely different way than did Emerson and Thoreau. ...

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Apart from the founder of the club the most important representatives there were: Henry David Thoreau, Amos Branson Alcott, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody. ... Another representative of Transcendentalism - Henry David Thoreau was under the influence of "Nature". ... Thoreau struggles to "live the visible through the invisible". ... Thoreau felt one must behave as morally toward nature as toward men, and considered the wasteful cutting of forests, for example, to be inhuman. ... Transcendentalists dealt with other crucial problems like social injustice (Thoreau's "Civil Disobedien...

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Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. ... Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the majority of societies were merely minions of a domineering governmental institution. ... Thoreau is harsh in his critique of soldiers and other individuals in the military. ... Thoreau identifies a fu...

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Thoreau was born in 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. ... Thoreau lived his life on the bare essentials. ... Thoreau was a devoted, naturalist. ... Thoreau was not a supporter of these reforms. ... His most famous essay is "Civil Disobedience," published in 1849. ...

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