The document provides an agenda for a class discussion. It outlines that the class will discuss essays 3 and 4, and the rhetorical strategies of Cicero and Thoreau. It provides information about essay 3, noting it will be combined with essay 4 for an in-class essay. The document also includes discussion questions for a critical reading of Thoreau. It ends with assigning homework to post a discussion relating Cicero and Thoreau's philosophies to A Game of Thrones.
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Why It Should be a Part of the American Literature Canon
âResistance to Civil Governmentâ, was written by Henry David Thoreau. This short story is an important work of literature that is a part of the American literary canon, and is as relevant today as the time it was written. According to enotes.com, a âliterary canonâŠis comprised of a body of works that are highly valued by scholars and others because of their aesthetic value and because they embody the cultural and political values of that societyâ (2). The work challenges the dominant ideology of the time, makes one see a view that did not coincide with the popular view, and challenges a personâs political and ideological views of today.
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When reading âResistance to Civil Governmentâ, one will see the theme that resisting an unjust government is a personâs obligation. This is evident when Thoreau writes, âall men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurableâ (Thoreau 840). Part of aesthetics has to do with integrity. Thoreau had a belief that the American government was unjust and could not support it. We find this evident when he refuses to pay his taxes and is thrown into prison (847). When looking at this work we see its aesthetic value.
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2. AGENDA
ï”Essays 3 and 4
ï”Discussion: Cicero and
Thoreau
ï”Rhetorical Strategies
ï” Questions for Critical Reading
3. Essay #3: Reminder
ï¶Essay #3 will be combined with the topics
for #4.
ï¶It will be an in-class essay that will be given
in week 10, class 19.
ï¶You will have the questions before the test.
ï¶The total points for the class will change
from 1000 to 900.
5. Get into your groups
ï Spend 10 minutes
preparing for our
discussion on Thoreau
and Cicero
6.
7. ï Thoreau uses balanced
sentence structure to
emphasize the ways that a
supposedly democratic and
representative government can
be corrupted through the
influence of powerful persons:
ï â[Government] has not the
vitality and force of a single
living man; for a single man
can bend it to his will.â
ï Thoreau uses a metaphor to
suggest that democratic
government, as it exists in his
day, is actually a sham:
ï âIt is a sort of wooden gun to
the people themselves.â
ï In other words, Thoreau
suggests that government gives
people the mere illusion of power
while actually leaving them
powerless.
The rhetorical question, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or
shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or
shall we transgress them at once? ..... Why is it not more apt to anticipate and
provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and
resist before it is hurt?
8. First-person narration allows
Thoreau to frame a complex and
abstract political issue in a voice that
personally bears witness to the
human effects and consequences of
government oppression. While
confident in his conviction that
slavery is morally wrong, Thoreau
generally avoids dogmatic,
authoritative statements in favor of a
more tentative, moderate first-person
voice. He prefers cautious
formulations such as "This, then, is
my position at present" over more
militant, definitive ones that might
alienate or put his reader on the
defensive.
Thoreau personifies the State "as
a lone woman with her silver
spoons." He casts government not
as a mechanical agent of injustice
but as a feminized object of pity.
During his stay in prison, Thoreau
comes to the realization that, far
from being a formidable brute force,
government is in fact weak and
morally pathetic. That he should
choose the figure of a woman to
make this point reveals an
interestingly gendered conception of
civil disobedience, given the
constant emphasis on the virtues of
men in relation to the State, here
personified as a woman.
9. Chiasmus âUnder a government which imprisons any
unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prisonâ
ï Allusion
ï "But almost all say that such
is not the case now. But such
was the case, they think, in
the Revolution of '75. If one
were to tell me that this was
a bad government because it
taxed certain foreign
commodities brought to its
ports, it is most probable that
I should not make an ado
about it, for I can do without
them."
ï He utilizes techniques such
as repetition to emphasize
certain points (Anaphora).
ï "It does not keep the
country free. It does not
settle the West. It does not
educateâ
ï Analogy
ï "If I have unjustly wrested
a plank from a drowning
man, I must restore it to
him though I drown
myself.â
10. Rhetorical Strategies
ï Paradox
ï âIt is truly enough said, that a
corporation has no
conscience; but a
corporation of conscientious
men is a corporation with a
conscience.â
âą Aphorism:
âą âthe progress from an
absolute to a limited
monarchy, from a limited
monarchy to a democracy, is
a progress toward a true
respect for the individualâ
âą âIf a plant cannot live
according to its nature it dies
and so a man.â
12. How would you
characterize the tone of
Thoreauâs address?
Is he chastising his audience? Is he praising it? What opinion
do you think he has of his audience?
13. Explain what Thoreau means when
he says, âBut a government in which
the majority rule in all
cases cannot be based on justice,
even as far as men understand it.â
14. How is injustice âpart of the
necessary friction of the
machine of government?â
15. Why does Thoreau provide us with
âthe whole history of âMy Prisonsââ?
Describe what being in jail taught
Thoreau. Why do you think Thoreau
reacted so strongly to being in a
local jail for a single day?
16. How might Thoreau view the
responsibility of the majority to
a minority within the sphere of
government?
17. Responsibility
ï âIt is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to
devote himself to the eradication of any, even the
most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have
other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at
least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no
thought longer, not to give it practically his support.â
18. ï Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we
endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have
succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally,
under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait
until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think
that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the
evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is
worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to
anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its
wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why
does it not encourage its citizens to put out its faults, and do
better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ
and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce
Washington and Franklin rebels?
ï Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for
a just man is also a prison.
19. How clear are Thoreauâs
concepts of justice? On
what are they based?
20.
21. ï Argument Dialogue
ï (Between Philus and Laelius)
ï Definition/interpretation
ï (What is Justice?)
ï Offers Alternatives
ï (perform injustice/not suffer it; perform
and suffer; neither perform or suffer it)
ï Evaluation
ï§ (perform injustice and not suffer it)
ïCompares
ï§ (Justice to policies of
Rome)
ïContrasts
ï§ (Wisdom with Justice)
ïAnalogy
ï§ (virtuous man vs. ruffian)
ïCounterargument
ï§ (by Laelius at the end to
make his point)
Rhetorical Strategies
28. Which of Laeliusâs statements in the final paragraphs of the selection seem weakest to
you? What are the Strengths?
29. HOMEWORK
Post #27 PASS
Post #28 QHQ: How can we apply the
philosophy of Cicero and/or Thoreau to A
Game of Thrones? Make sure to include
textual support in your post.