Literature: Tool For The Masses To Grasp And Form Opinions On A Subject

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Term Paper Title	Literature: Tool For The Masses To Grasp And Form Opinions On A Subject
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Literature: Tool For The Masses to Grasp and Form Opinions on A Subject

Literature: Tool For The Masses to Grasp and Form Opinions on A Subject

Over the centuries, one of the most important tools available to protesting
groups was literature.  Some of the most famous protest literature in the world
has its roots in American history.  For example, some great American authors of
protest literature include Thomas Paine, Thomas Nast, John C. Calhoun, and
Martin Luther King.  Through eloquent, sometimes subtle means, these authors
became the spokesmen for their particular protest movements.

Thomas Paine was an English-born man who seemed to stir controversy wherever he
traveled.  Paine's forceful yet eloquent prose made him a hero for the three
great causes to which he devoted his life; the American Revolution, religious
reform, and the natural rights of man.  At the age of 37, Paine strove for the
fabled shores of America, determined to forget his past.  He made the
acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin, and  settled in Philadelphia.  There, Paine
was eventually hired into the profession of editor for the Pennsylvania Magazine.
He published a series of minor essays, but his first important work was an
essay written for the Pennsylvania Journal in which Paine openly denounced
slavery.  This was Paine's first foray into the world of protest literature, and
it clearly whet his appetite.  Paine soon became fascinated with the ongoing
hostility in Anglo-American relations, and, much to the dismay of his publisher,
could not seem to think of anything but.  Therefore, in late 1775, Paine had
begun what was to become a 50-page Pamphlet known as Common Sense.  In this work,
Paine stated that:

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is
but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one:  for when we suffer,
or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a
country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we
furnish the means by which we suffer.  Government, like dress, is the badge of
lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of
paradise (Fast 6).

This very biting and controversial stance is what characterized Paine's writing.
He went on to dismiss the King as a fool, and stated that natural ability is not
necessarily related to heredity.  Paine argued that the colonies existed only
for British profit, and that the colonies must unite...

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