The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Homework Help

In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, why does Thoreau ultimately return to the human race?In the "Production Notes" following the play it...

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Where, in the course of this drama, did the character of Henry strike you as paradoxical?

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, why is it significant that Abraham Lincoln shows up in the nightmare?

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, what is the meaning of the following quote?"What law ever made men free? Men have got to make the law free."

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Can you help me with the following prompt? "Reread the nightmare scene near the end of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and describe the main...

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How does Dickinson's "The Brain is Wider than the Sky" relate to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail?

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Does anyone how Henry teachs Bailey how to write his name?

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How are those around henry affected by his attitude in the play? How is athourity affected by Henrys choices?I need help on a study i am...

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, what does the huckleberry hunting mean symbolically?

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In Act I of the play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee), why is Edmund removed from Thoreau's school?

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In Act Two, Waldo, quarreling with Henry, asks: "Could your woodchuks, with all their wisdom, have saved [the murdered fugitive slave] Henry...

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In the play titled The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, why does Henry not return to Walden?

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, is Henry's refusal to pay taxes wise or foolish?

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In the play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, why does Thoreau believe that calling a man loony is a great compliment to the man and a great...

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, discuss how you feel about Henry's non- conformity.

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According to Henry, in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, what is the difference between living and being?

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In The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, how is huckleberrying associated with learning?

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In the drama, what was Thoreau's view on activism?

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In the play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, what does Thoreau mean when he wonders what would happen if God wanted to be "liked" rather than...

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In the play titled The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Thoreau asks, "If I ever met a man who was completely awake, how could I look him in the...

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What job did Thoreau agreed to do for Emerson in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail?

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What message of his philosophy is Thoreau attempting to convey when he says, "Let every sheep keep his own skin"?

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What are some paradoxes in the play?

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Explore the complex relationship between Thoreau and Emerson as it is depicted here.

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What impact did Waldo have on Henry?

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From The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail, Which aspect of Thoreau's characterization seems especially contemporary?

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Discuss the symbolism of freedom in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

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Discuss the symbolism of the nightmare sequence in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

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Who appears in Henry Thoreau's beanfield?

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What would be a thesis statement for The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail involving either individuality, freedom, or conformity?

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Why do playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee refer to the hero of this play as “The Now Thoreau?”

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What modern day acts of civil disobedience can I relate to Thoreau's acts in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail?I'm looking for highly recognized...

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Why do Henry and Waldo have so much conflict with each other?Why do they both think there both hypocites and irresonsible?

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What "Moral filth" did Thoreau want to "get rid of?"Moral filth

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What is the biggest act of civil disobedience in "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" the play written by Robert E. Lee?

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What does "it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness"...

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Please summarize the night that Thoreau spent in jail."Civil Disobedience"

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What is Thoreau's position on slavery in "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"?  

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What does Thoreau mean by his comment “It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail”?Also can you...

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In 'The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail,' Henry Thoreau advise us to follow the pattern set by what animal by cleaning after ourselves?

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Quote from "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail":  “A man‘s conviction is stronger than a flame or a bullet or a rock." ...

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What is the central conflict in the play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail?

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I was wondering if anyone could think of two quotes that explain the quote(listed below in explanation) also that discuss henry's way of life...

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