Pink Floyd And Thoreau: A Comparative Analysis

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Pink floyd and Thoreau both express similar things yet in different ways . One comparison in particular is war through control of the people, control through abuse ,and a lot of injustice. In “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau writes, “in other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be refuge of liberty are slaves , and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered…, I think it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize”(279). Thoreau is saying people are going to fight for equality and better days when they feel mistreated, threatened, and fed up. In the Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall”, where everyone was breaking things, on a rampage and burning buildings down ; In that particular scene ,Pink Floyed showed how eventually people will get tired of being controlled by the government which will result in war, riots, or other …show more content…

Thoreau writes, “I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up”(279). The “institution” that treated Thoreau wrongly is like the government treating the people wrongly and having them confined and being the same like they aren’t anything. Pink Floyed writes, “there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could”. The “institution” would be like the government doing the people wrongly, and the teachers would be like the “government” treating the students wrongly, not letting them have a say in anything and treating them like they’re not important . Pink Floyed and Thoreau show how the people thought they could do nothing about this because they’re considered “weak” to higher authorities, so they continued to be controlled like puppets and treated wrong, but they are actually stronger than they think. The “government” knew the only way to successfully control was to use and abuse the

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