ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau had already stopped paying his taxes in protest against slavery. The local tax collector had ignored his tax evasion, but decided to act when Thoreau publicly condemned the U.S. invasion and occupation of Mexico. In July 1846, the sheriff arrested and jailed Thoreau for his tax delinquency.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two act play written by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence, and it tells the story of famed transcendentalist poet and author Henry David Thoreau, and the night he spent in jail in Massachusetts with another man, as they ruminate on their lives, their past and their freedom.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Of overriding importance to Thoreau was his refusal to sanction the evil institution of slavery, and thus his violation of the Fugitive Slave Laws and his participation in the Underground Railway to freedom for escaped slaves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.