![]() ![]() He was against the destruction of the natural environment caused by human activity, he was against industrialism because it encouraged materialistic attitudes, and he was profoundly anti-slavery (Glick). ![]() It is known that Thoreau is morally objective in all aspects of his life. In his essay, Thoreau immediately challenges the notion of the people in the American truly having a voice in the government’s decisions and laws regarding moral outcomes that affect the nation as a whole. ![]() By using several literary techniques such as imagery, rhetorical questions, analogies and tone when describing his opinions on the text, Thoreau challenges the morality of our civil government by questioning the people’s influence in the system, identifying the problem of government treatment of its people, and how to change the immorality of civil government as individuals within our government. How much power should the government have? How influential can people be in the governmental system? Who controls the potential of change within our governmental system? In “Resistance to Civil Government”, Henry David Thoreau attempts to enlightens his readers by attempting to answer these questions and more. The idea of government control over its people is something that has been debated about for centuries. ![]()
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