David Henry Hwang

In both “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” and “Antigone”, Civil disobedience becomes the answer to conflicts both fictional and in reality. Antigone and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons for defying certain laws and people in charge in attempts to fight for what they believe in. Although they both technically broke the law to support a cause, Antigone and King had different approaches in doing so and different goals. Antigone openly defied her leader in a direct way to accomplish a singular goal

handful of principals from self-reliance to the thought of technology is harmful.The main tenet throughout the paper will focus on the importance of nature. Transcendentalist views nature as a gateway to the spiritual world, a way to the Omnipower. Henry David Thoreau immersed himself into nature fully “The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it”(Thoreau II). Thoreau reveals how he has taken the time to observe nature to its fullest extent

Better Government Henry David Thoreau, wrote an assay about “Civil Disobedience” in 1849. Thoreau a man whit strong believes about government been needed for the people, but needed to be modified. The writer states that, “government is best which governs least” the best government is the one who rules a nation by putting innocent people to risk to keep them safe. For example, the Mexican war, a war that a president set as one of his four goals throughout his presidency. Thoreau, decided to

This past weekend I challenged myself to practice a principle of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement consisting of 6 principles; valuing nature, do not conform to society, trust yourself and be confident, live simply, reject technology and reject material goods. The principle which I choose to practice was rejecting technology. I decided that for the weekend I would give up my favorite app, Instagram. In today's society, the world of technology and social

typically exists a universal agreement that the government in some way has certain responsibilities to its people. These often include aspects of protection and regulation of the economy. Consequently, the people have a duty to their government. Henry David Thoreau explains these corresponding obligations in his essay “Civil Disobedience”. The idea is presented that the citizens have the ability to make changes. They are able to alert the government to its mistakes through action. Thoreau is not offering

As a citizen, one often faces the moral dilemma of whether to abide by the laws they disagree or whether not to. The Crito, written by Plato, and Civil Disobedience, written by Henry David Thoreau, explain and defend their claims on what to do when one encounters this moral dilemma. The Crito argues that one should not break the laws because to break one law is to break all of the laws. Civil Disobedience argues that majorities should not determine whether to make the people of a society follow a

on promoting equality and anti-racism, and Gandhi wanted to give India independence from British rule, as well as fight the racism towards Indians in South Africa. Both Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi’s movements and beliefs were influenced by Henry David Thoreau, and they hold a strong connection to transcendentalism. Martin Luther King Jr. was a wise man, born in 1929 and assassinated in 1968. He gave many inspiring speeches with ideas that were uncommon of southern America in that age. He took

John Stuart Mill’s political philosophy is consequentialist due to the fact that utilitarianism is directly related to one’s happiness and reality in which they come to the point of being happy. Consequentialist is the philosophy that say the right moral decision produces the best consequence. An individual’s happiness is related and defined upon the ethics of morality, of an action based upon the outcome of that actions consequence. Mill defines “happiness as pleasure and the absence pain” (Mill)

In the essay of Civil of Disobedience, Thoreau goes into detail about his personal interaction with civil disobedience. Thoreau hasn’t paid a poll tax for six years. Poll taxes are a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. Thoreau was placed into jail for punishment for rebelling against the government. Thoreau says his experience in jail did not hurt his spirit: "I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one

reform itself or the idea of reforming America. In some cases, these writers focused on advocating for strong social or political reforms. In other cases, these writers argued for a reform in their own personal perspective. Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper all had specific reforms that they each pushed for individually through their writings. While these three authors had different reasons for pushing for reformation, they all seem to blend into one overall