ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

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The following is an example of ____:"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it” (Civil Disobedience, 370).
A
irony
B
aphorism
C
paradox
D
Romanticism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -From Civil Disobedience Define Paradox (look in glossary): Examples: “Government is best which governs least” “Government is best which governs not at all.” what is right. conscience is freer than someone blindly serving an unjust system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Staged sit-ins, marches, blockades, and hunger strikes have all be tactics used to raise awareness about issues that are taking place in society. Non-violent demonstrations such as these are known as civil disobedience.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is an example of an act of civil disobedience? nonviolent refusals to obey the law as a way to advocate change-such as sit-ins and boycotts. What kinds of discrimination did the civil rights act of 1964 ban?

Detailed explanation-4: -Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: A Definition It is a nonviolent action engaged in by an individual who refuses to obey a law for moral or philosophical reasons. The participants in civil disobedience willfully and openly refuse to comply with a law in order to dramatize the issue that they, or the group, find unjust.

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