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.