ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Thoreau, who/what should be governing people?
A
laws
B
men’s conscience
C
the majority’s opinion
D
the president
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Conscience is instinct bred in the house, Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin. By an unnatural breeding in and in. I say, Turn it out doors, Into the moors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau argued that the government must end its unjust actions to earn the right to collect taxes from its citizens. As long as the government commits unjust actions, he continued, conscientious individuals must choose whether to pay their taxes or to refuse to pay them and defy the government.

Detailed explanation-3: -Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.” “Civil Disobedience” was inspired by Thoreau’s arrest in 1846 for refusing for six years to pay a poll tax in protest of both slavery and the Mexican-American War.

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