Thoreau was a genuine social deviant, disenchanted by the growing industrial machine of commerce and its constructions. ... "The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right a corporation has no conscience" (Thoreau, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1793). ... Based on both the works of Thoreau and Hawthorne, social deviance and the ensuing intolerance which follows have been prevailing themes in American literature since the beginnings of colonialism. ...

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