ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The play is based on the early life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax on the grounds that the money might be used to pay for the Mexican–American War, which he opposed.

Detailed explanation-2: -185 Main Street (9), now part of the Concord Academy, served as residence to the Thoreau family for eight years. Nearby is 255 Main Street (10), Thoreau’s final home and where he passed away in 1862.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, Thoreau played an active role in the Underground Railroad in Concord. He escorted fugitives to the West Fitchburg railroad station, where they made connections for Canada.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born and lived nearly all his life in Concord, Massachusetts, a small town about twenty miles west of Boston. He received his education at the public school in Concord and at the private Concord Academy.

Detailed explanation-5: -On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone. He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ” he famously wrote in Walden.