Throughout the short story of “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville, the narrator, or the lawyer, tells the reader how Bartleby’s continuous passive resistance behavior led to his tragic downfall. Although this story is an example of the downfall of passive resistant protests, it helps bring to mind of the effectiveness of it. This form of passive resistance has been a trend in protesting for the last hundred, or so, years. Ignoring the recent, by recent I mean the last eight years, protests which all have been neither peaceful nor successful when compared to the grand passive resistance marches of world renowned Martin Luther King Junior’s and MK Gandhi’s marches and sit-downs. Which comes to show how the more violent and disturbing
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While this once one of Gandhi’s first of many passive resistant protests it was the official start of the trend of peaceful protesting. Heavily influenced by Gandhi’s peaceful approach, Martin Luther King Junior’s more known marches consisted of 200,000 peaceful demonstrators in their infamous “March on Washington” to get the attention of the U.S. senate of the severe need of a law prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Having been advocating for much-needed change for five years prior to the march, the senate solved the problem and with it created the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They did this in the reaction to the peacefulness of their march, especially since thousands of people rioted against them. Like I stated before, peaceful, non-aggressive protests are more effective than their counterpart. Not only do people favor quiet and powerful protests to property damaging and riots to scare people into listening to their cries, but also hold a higher respect for those who are
While this once one of Gandhi’s first of many passive resistant protests it was the official start of the trend of peaceful protesting. Heavily influenced by Gandhi’s peaceful approach, Martin Luther King Junior’s more known marches consisted of 200,000 peaceful demonstrators in their infamous “March on Washington” to get the attention of the U.S. senate of the severe need of a law prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Having been advocating for much-needed change for five years prior to the march, the senate solved the problem and with it created the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They did this in the reaction to the peacefulness of their march, especially since thousands of people rioted against them. Like I stated before, peaceful, non-aggressive protests are more effective than their counterpart. Not only do people favor quiet and powerful protests to property damaging and riots to scare people into listening to their cries, but also hold a higher respect for those who are