CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (Bloom's Literary Themes)

The role of civil disobedience, the act of defying society for the greater good, has been a theme of many famous and often controversial literary works. This volume explores the role of civil disobedience in '1984', 'Antigone', 'The Crucible', 'Fahrenheit 451', the speeches of Malcolm X, and many more works. Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, this addition to the Bloom's Literary Themes series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

CONTENTS
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- Antigone (Sophocles)
- The Plays of Aristophanes
- "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Herman Melville)
- Billy Budd (Herman Melville)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- "Civil Disobedience" (Henry David Thoreau)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
- The Poetry of Langston Hughes
- Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
- Julius Ceasar (William Shakespeare)
- "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- The Speeches of Malcolm X
- Native Son (Richard Wright)
- The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
- The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- The Trial (Franz Kafka)
Acknowledgments
Index