Importance of knowledge and how knowledge is power

Importance of knowledge and how knowledge is power

Using The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and the film Good Night and Good Luck write an essay that informs and persuades your audience over the topic discussing the importance of knowledge and how knowledge is power.

Discussing the importance of knowledge and how knowledge is power

Using The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and the film Good Night and Good Luck write an essay that informs and persuades your audience over the topic discussing the importance of knowledge and how knowledge is power. The essay should be in MLA format and each body paragraph should include two or three pieces of evidence. Three different rhetorical devices will need to be typed and highlighted.

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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Summary

The play is divided into two Acts. There are no delineations between scenes despite the fact that the setting shifts back and forth between the present and various periods in the past. Despite the fact that these flashbacks take place in different locations, the “setting” of the play never changes. The set is essentially a bare bones jail cell and the shifts in time. Also, place are indicated through various other means. Indeed, the entire play could very easily be performed without any notable break between Act One and Act Two. Though to do so would diminish the impact of the Thoreau’s famous retort which brings the curtain down on the first act.

The choice of the jail cell as the play’s lone scenic design is important both literally and thematically:

the “present” time relates the actual historical event in which Henry David Thoreau chose to be jailed rather than pay taxes to support a contemporary war against Mexico which he considered immoral. So in the “present” the cell literally holds Henry prisoner. But as narrative explores through fluidity of time several episodes from Thoreau’s past. The jail also becomes a metaphor for the imprisonment of ideas.