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Essay Archive - Henry David Thoreau was a Rebel
Henry David Thoreau was a Rebel
Henry David Thoreau was a rebel. Walden can be seen as an account
of his rebellion. By the 1840's, life had changed throughout New England,
even in the heart of America's rebellion, Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau
wrote that "I have traveled a good deal in Concord" (Krutch 108). He knew
what he saw there, and what he saw, he began to despise. "The mass of men
lead lives of quiet desperation" (111). In 1775, ordinary men had dared to
take up arms of rebellion and strike a blow for independence and freedom
(Bowes 123-124). Yet, in the space of few decades,....
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