Question

According to "Civil Disobedience," what happens before Thoreau is put into prison? He contemplates what prison is like. He decides that imprisonment is foolish. He does not pay the poll tax for six years. He meditates on the problems of the state.

Answer 1

According to "Civil Disobedience," what happens before Thoreau is put into prison is that:

He does not pay the poll tax for six years.

Henry David Thoreau's debate in the “Civil Disobedience” was that the citizens of a nation should violate certain rules executed by the state if the laws are unfair. He expresses his struggle when he objected against slavery and the Mexican War by denying to pay taxes. He continues that there are two kinds of laws, one is created by God and the other by the people. The laws created by God is concerning humanity and is important than the laws created by men.