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This is a 3 page paper which discusses the ideals exemplified in Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" as they compare to the principles of utopian society.
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his dislike of slavery, his aversion to voting, his distaste for the Mexican-American War and his desire for a utopia on earth. ANALYSIS OF THE ESSAY While staying at a
cabin at Walden Pond, Thoreau walked into Concord to retrieve a pair of shoes at a cobblers shop (Helm, 1999). While there he was confronted by the local constable
Sam Staples who asked Thoreau to pay his past poll taxes (Helm, 1999). Thoreau refused, partly as a protest against slavery, and as result he spend the night in
the Concord jail (Helm, 1999). This experience was deemed to be the premise for his ideas which were expounded on first as a lecture and then in the published
essay of "Civil Disobedience". In Thoreaus opinion the act of civil disobedience was not an act that should serve the cause of anarchy or reform (Helm, 1999).
He felt that individuals had the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist governments, if they did not believe in the essence of what the government was doing.
The essay begins with the most famous state that the best government "governs not at all" (Helm, 1999). Thoreau was not much concerned with government and therefore did not feel
that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to correct
injustices. Yet, Thoreau did believe that no one should pursue their private interests at the expense of others interests (Helm, 1999). Thoreau expressed in his essay the idea
that an individuals conscious and their moral sense need not reside in government institutions, but rather in the individual themselves (Helm, 1999). He also felt that when individuals were
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