Reflection on Emerson and Thoreau After having read the works by Emerson and Thoreau, such as Self-Reliance or Civil Disobedience, many of the readers keep questioning the actual point of each work supported by so many repetitions and restatements. ... What really got me involved in the lecture of the works, especially Self-Reliance by Emerson and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, was the style of writing used to compose the works. ... Thus reading Civil Disobedience in our age can bring much more benefits to the civilization that it could years ago when majority of people chose to remain inf...

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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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Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. ... He stated that "things do not change; we change" (Thoreau). ... In, "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau urges people to resist the governmental policies with which they disagree. ... 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). ...

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Similar to Emerson, Thoreau dislikes institutions and promotes non-conformity. ... Thoreau takes Emerson's "Self Reliance" philosophy further by becoming an activist while following his conscious or individual thoughts. An example is Thoreau protesting slavery using Civil Disobedience, "If one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefore, it would be the abolition of slavery in America"(9). Thoreau encourages disobeying unjust laws in order to change them. ... Thore...

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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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