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BIRTH: July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts PARENTS: Jhon Thoreau and Cynthia
Dunbar EDUCATION: Harvard University(1833-1837) MAIN INTERESTS: Natural history NOTABLE IDEAS: Abolitionism, tax
resistance, civil disobedience…..
The Service (1840) A Walk to Wachusett (1842) Sir Walter Raleigh (1844) Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
Walden (1854) The Last Days of John Brown (1860) Walking (1861) Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881) Summer (1884) Winter (1888) Autumn (1892) Poems of Nature (1895) The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
Essay describes how Thoreau's work
of "Walden" defines transcendentalism.
Thoreau's masterpiece work of writing, Walden, deeply portrays the notion of transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism meaning a whole series of things: preeminence of nature, individualism, anti-materialism, nonconformity, intellectual independence, distrust of industrialism, action rather than thinking, and pragmatism.
Is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Thoreau’s writings influenced many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau’s work, particularly Civil Disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi developed civil
disobedience as an anti-colonialist tool. Gandhi
stated "Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention and sacrifice".
Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his
autobiography that his first encounter with the
idea of non-violent resistance was reading
“ On Civil Disobedience”.
Thoreau contracted
tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically afterwards. In 1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis.
1.- Which were his principals works?2.- What work does it describe to the
transcendentalism?3.- Who were influenced by his works?4.- Why was he in jail?5.- What work did Thoreau write in jail?6.- How did he die?