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Bartleby And Civil Disobedienc
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The extremely simplified definition of civil disobedience given by Webster’s Dictionary is “nonviolent opposition to a law through refusal to comply with it, on grounds of conscience.”
Thoreau in “Civil Disobedience” and Martin Luther King in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” both argue that laws tho ....
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.... disobedience since nothing could be considered unjust in the boss’s management.
Even if an unjust act were placed against Bartleby, he would not have had any cares about the injustice. He was a man who needed a place to live and chose to be a law-copyist. He has no desire to do any work and no desire to interact with other humans. Anytime an order was given, the same response would reply from Bartleby’s mouth: “I would prefer not to” (Melville). Bartleby did not weigh the issues of morality.... |
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