Escapism In Civil Disobedience

A way of getting away from reality and to be fantasied, or other might refer to it as escapism, was one of the characteristics. Another one was individualism that promoted self-pride and seek the answer of why and what makes you so unique. Another one is looking to past mistakes and experiences to learn from them and become wiser. The last two relates the most to Henry Thoreau. One of this was persevering nature as a source of inspiration and the final one was to see the common men as people.
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord Massachusetts, a small town that was located twenty miles apart from Boston. He was raised along with his siblings; John Thoreau, Helen Thoreau and Sophia Thoreau. In his teenage life he was a bright and hardworking student, eventually he attended to Harvard College. During his time in Harvard, Henry studied different languages such as Greek, Latin and German. At some

He was a very committed abolitionist until his death in May 6th in 1862. He saw slavery as a moral mistake and even called it a “Civil Disobedience”.
In the “Civil Disobedience”, an essay written in 1848 and published in 1849 by Henry Thoreau. Henry starts off by arguing about how even though there are laws, policies, regulations, American has not quite develop the sense of morally righteousness in its full extension. He relates this undeveloped circumstances to events like the Mexican-American war, or the fact that he are treating another race of human beings as tangible items; the Negro race being under slavery.
He also argues that it is not all right to give complete political power to a single group, the white race, even though they are the stronger group. The reason why he does not support this is because on his point of view people are meant not to follow laws if the laws are morally unfair and rather to follow that they think is right and stand up against