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Re: Essay on Emerson vs. Thoreau; civil disobedience
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Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:18:25 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> I'm enclosing something I wrote for my English class, just a little food for
> thought. It was to be based on a play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail",
> which I actually really liked (which, unfortunately, is a rarity for class
> reading material). I chose what I found to be the hardest opinion to
> actually *defend*, although it is the one most of us live by. This is
> Emerson's part - he does not live his own ideals of civil disobedience, but
> rather prefers to remain in his comfortable world of "warm toast and tea and
> soft-boiled egg.... on a tray to bed each morning" (76). In the play he is
> depicted as a bright man, but somewhat of a hypocrite. I did my best to show
> otherwise. So, LMKWYT, or spark a discussion, by all means.
One of these days I really must read this play, since it is significant
to me on many fronts. The play is definitely a commentary on the US, but
is also an interesting window into my own faith of Unitarian
Universalist as both Thoreau and Emerson were Unitarians. And then
there's the fact that part of my youth was spent in Concord MA (living
at 1 Thoreau St. around the corner from Emerson's house, learning to
swim in Walden Pond etc.). Several of our youth at church have studied
this play (which is where I first heard about it). It definitely
reflects the struggle between not compromising one's ideals and seeking
effective routes to change that Unitarian Universalists and many other
folks around the world (such as Rabin as Shiri points out) deal with.
Thanks for sharing this with us Shiri.
Frank
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