What is the great lawsuit

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1. Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit" is chock-full of references with enough to make your head spin. Are these comparisons and allusions random, stream of consciousness? In other words, is "The Great Lawsuit" an accumulation rather than an organized essay? Or is there a sequence, and a structure, to the way that these issues and allusions are raised and to the style that they are raised in?

2. Why do you think that so much space is given over in Fuller's essay to domestic relations, to husbands and wives, especially considering that Fuller was never married herself. Is this section of the essay a gesture of accommodation? Is it subversive in some way, in the way that it addresses the American domestic scene?

3. Fuller calls the essay "The Great Lawsuit"-but why? Is there anything playful about Fuller's title? In comparison to the way Emerson argues or pleads a case-for example, the opening paragraphs of "Self-Reliance"-does Fuller's wit weaken hers or get in the way somehow? Does it change, or even satirize, the nature of argument itself, as that ritual has evolved over several centuries, under male-governance?

4. Thoreau both seems to have agendas for his work with which he wants readers to sympathize while also consistently promoting individual and independent thought. Looking at "Resistance to Civil Government," what are the stylistic strengths and weaknesses of his approach when it comes to reaching a crowd of listeners or readers?

5. Why do you think Thoreau's essay was so important to 20th-Century figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.?

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