Thoreau

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November 9, 2012

 

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This metaphor makes the complex idea that the all-powerful American government is actually feeble and fragile, because everyone knows that a wooden gun can do no serious harm. Thoreau thinks that the government would crumble if the people tried to put it to any real use, or if they tried to use it against one another...
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He states: "The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies" (3). Thoreau compares American citizens to show that almost everyone in the country obeys what the government mandates, no matter what the cost. He says that marines are "a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity? already buried under arms with funeral accompaniments" (3)...
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