Henry David Thoreau Feminism Essay

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The woman now have more equal rights than the men and had made a lot of progress in the new society winning respect and the same trait like men. But in the past the women were treated unequally, they were considered inferior than the men and they didn’t have the same rights. For example they use to don’t have the right to vote or they weren’t allowed to work in some places. But nowadays we can still seeing that they don’t have the same treat in some aspects, like in some workplaces. The women can do the same work as the men but have a lower salary or in the arabic countries they are considered inferior for no reason.
But before talk about this, what is the feminism? The feminism can mean a lot of things but the more popular is the …show more content…

Thoreau was an American writer who write books like Civil Disobedience. He had a anarchist mentality, we can see it in the book, he talks about the bad organization of the government or the bad interests that they have. He talks about that sometimes the answer for it is a Revolution, because in sometimes just asking we can’t have justice. And he don’t talk about the feminism neither, but if the girls still having a different treat than the man they can make a revolution. Asking for their rights that they tried to have it in a pacific way and they didn’t have it. For this reason, I put Henry David Thoreau because his ideology, the anarchist, can be the answer if they don’t give them justice.
One example is the French revolution, in France they had a very bad treat the population for the Absolut monarchy of the king, that he had a lot of privileges and the population was in a very deep poverty. One day they get tired of it and they killed the king having finally justice for the population. But not always is the answers to have what they want. One time he said in civil disobedience ‘’How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?”. And he is saying that how can support one idea just because? Because a group of people say it and you just believe it without knowing

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