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The creative treatment. Part 1

In his essay “Civil Disobedience”, in which he describes his experience of incarceration for his refusal to pay taxes as a protest against the U.S. war with Mexico, American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau writes...

The creative treatment. Part 2

Rebellion always starts in order to achieve something, if somebody rebels against the system he wants to change it, not only for him but for the sake of the world. That was the main idea of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”.

The creative treatment. Part 3

Even the initial critical treatment of “Bartleby, the scrivener” reveals the power of the system. The critics used to count the lawyer’s role as the initial one, referring to Bartleby as to a comical or nihilistic persona, while the narrator was perceived either as self-serving, or well-meaning.