Civil Disobedience Prose Essay
Submitted by caliboater on May 17, 2011
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Civil Disobedience Prose Essay
Do we really need a government? In the excerpt from the book Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues we do not. In his argumentative essay, Thoreau uses belittlement, examples and finally reason to push his anti government ideals onto the reader.
Thoreau criticizes the US government for being “but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity” (15-16) He is arguing that mankind doesn’t need a big “man” to govern them. He points out that “It (the government) does not keep the country free, It does not settle the west, It does not educate” (24-25) His point is that mankind is destined to do these things, the...
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