By teaching through discussions, he put a higher emphasis on the individual learning for himself or herself.
By teaching through discussions, he put a higher emphasis on the individual learning for himself or herself.
It is about the author's experience of living alone. (APEX)
Full of rhetorical devices.
Full of rhetorical devices.
it showed that people can be self sufficient and don't have to be slaves.
To explain when a person has a moral obligation to disobey the law
Transcending the conventions of society by living in solitude
Emerson describes famous thinkers and artists, while Thoreau describes personal experiences.
he says that "the dogs and the hogs are all just there to get in your way of being closer to god" . this means that having materialistic things are a stunt in your growth with religion and also a stunt in your quest for heaven
His transcendentalist ideas basically motivated people to "get of their asses, and do something", thus making people actually rely on themselves. Thoreau's works benefited society, in that people actually started to rely on themselves rather than on other people.
B. The interference with his protest. Thoreau was angry about being jailed because he felt it was unjust and interfered with his civil disobedience against an unjust government.
Henry David Thoreauâ??s â??On Civil Disobedienceâ?? has had a long and far reaching impact. Leaders like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King admit to being influenced by the work. In addition, American writers like Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway also drew inspiration from it.