Assignment #1: Victorian Literature

1. I read the Henry Thoreau's writings: "WALDEN" AND "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE"

2. SIMILITUDES: Literature of Victorian period and Thoreau's writing captures the contradictory ambitions, ambivalence, rationalizations and protests, fears and emotions that fueled an imaginary and actual empires.

Thoreau's writings are political thoughts and feelings against the administration's abuses within matirial societies of that period. Lines show political, social and enviorioments problems. The power of the rish societies on poor societies as well as the victims of this material and political problems.


3. Y es, they are! because Thoreau's writing were written in nine-teenth century, in a difficult political context. His books describe a material society, abuses, necessities. They let us know, the rish people's power and their influence on poor people.


4. Yes, I recommend these writings to everybody because they would help us to become more conscious and responsible in our lives.

WALDEN'S PASSAGE

I WENT TO THE WOODS BECAUSE

I WISHED TO LIVE DELIBERATELY...

WE LIVE BUT A FRACTION OF OUR LIVES...

OUR LIFE IS FRITTERED AWAY BY DETAIL...SIMPLIFY....SIMPLIFY

LET YOUR CAPITAL BE SIMPLICITY AND CONTENTMENT...

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE PASSAGE


"WHO ARE MORE INTERESTED IN COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE THAN THEY ARE IN

HUMANITY, AND ARE NOT PREPARED TO DO JUSTICE TO THE SLAVE AND TO MEXICO,

COST IT WHAT MAY......THERE ARE THOUNSANDS WHO ARE IN OPPINION OPPOSED


TO SLAVERY AND TO THE WAR. WHO YET IN EFFECT DO NOTHINGTO PUT AN END TO

THEM"...

...Paying taxes is one way in which otherwise well-meaning people collaborate in

injustice. People who proclaim that the war in Mexico is wrong and that it is wrong to

enforce slavery contradict themselves if they fund both things by puying taxes...