Henry David Thoreau
Where He wrote civil disobedience.
What is Walden Pond (Massachusetts).
When Civil disobedience was written.
What is 1849
The person who created Transcendamentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The first blush of sin"
What is personification?
An appeal to reason
What is logos
The philosopher he quoted in his essay.
Who is Confucius.
The reason why it was written.
What is opposing the institution of slavery and the Mexican American War
The century in which transcendentalism began
19th
"wash his hands of it"
What is an idiom?
An appeal to authority
What is ethos
The politician he criticized in his essay.
Who is Daniel Webster.
What Well-meaning people who blindly support their governments bad actions are
What is dangerous?
The most important "world" according to transcendentalism
What is the spiritual world?
"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth- certainly the machine will wear out."
What is a metaphor?
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity”
What is Logos?
What He used as a metaphor for the government.
What is a machine.
What people should do if their governments are not just.
Separate themselves
Where transcendentalism says we can find truth
What is within ourselves?
“It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night.”
What is simile?
“Why give your neighbors this pain to treat you as they are not inclined to? But I think, again, this is no reason why I should do as they do, or permit others to suffer much greater pain of a different kind.
What is Pathos?
The leader that Thoreau's essay had the greatest impact on.
Who is Gandhi.
Thoreau said that if this was a necessary part of the machine of government, then we should let all of government go
What is injustice?
The way transcendentalism says we can understand things
What is intuition and the connection to the divine?
“Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
What is allusion?
“I saw yet more distinctly the State in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly purpose to do right.”
What is ethos