ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau wants to show that the government does not have the power to maintain justice in the country because the makers of the government have made the justness of the government towards its subjects obsolete. A single man, who is ruling the country can mould the laws framed by the government to meet his own ends.

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: -The main idea of “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau is to find the meaning of life. He set out to contemplate life and himself and to find out man’s role in the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Background. Prompted by his opposition to slavery and the Mexican War (1846–1848), Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) wrote “Civil Disobedience” in 1849, but its central question-how should individuals respond to a government that pursues policies they believe to be immoral-still challenges us today.

Detailed explanation-5: -In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.