Thoreau: The Common Man's Role In Society

In society, there are two roles that men can naturally fall under. There's the superior man who is the rich and or the authority, and the common man who are the lower and middle class people.Thoreau was the common man. In Walden Thoreau states that, “The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it,bends.” The superior man has money and or power leading him to hold a higher position in society versus the common man. The common man is a person of the lower or middle class; leading him to ultimately become bullied by the superior man. Society has split man’s role into two parts, the superior man and the common man
In Walden, Thoreau is the common man that lives in the forest in a cabin. Thoreau is not rich nor the authority, which naturally makes him the common man. Thoreau chooses not to pay his taxes, so one day while he was in town, he was arrested. As the common man, Thoreau is taken down by a superior man the “the authority of ,the state.” This moment in Thoreau’s life shows that society has split man into two roles, and as the common man the superior man is the one to bring the common man down or as

Common individuals aren't able to get away with crime or corruption.The superiors are always the ones to catch their mistakes and error and make sure they serve the time they are suppose to.When is comes to superior individuals, justice is not served for crimes in corruption, so the punishment is taken lightly. Superior individuals don't have to worry about people bringing them down because they are above everyone else.When a common man tries to point out the mistake made of someone above them, they usually aren't listened and brushed to the side. In society the superior man is like the wind, and the common man is like the grass because the common man allows the superior man to blow and bend