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Works of Herman Melville and Ernest Hemingway and the Uses of Phallic Symbolism

In seven pages phallic symbolism is considered in a comparative analysis of Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener' and Hemingway's 'H...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing, and Religion

In 7 pages this paper examines facing death and the traditional perception of religion in a comparative analysis of these novels. ...

'The Lightning Rod Man' by Herman Melville

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of contrasting points of view between the salesman of lightning rods and a pro...

Behavior in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines the strange behavior exhibited by Bartleby throughout the course of Melville's story. There are...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Pip Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Pip and his racial significance especially given the practice of slaver...

Captain Ahab Character in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

appears on the scene, he is an imposing figure of a man whose scars tell the tale of his battles with nature and with God. "Threa...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper analyzes Captain Delano in terms of his abilities to reason and his denial in a consideration of the igno...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, and Human Nature

In five pages these works are contrasted and compared regarding human nature with topics of prejudice and cynicism discussed. The...

Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In ten pages this paper examines the powerful symbolism within Melville's novel especially as it pertains to the whale's significa...

Enslavement in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...

Setting in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this research paper focuses upon the author's use of setting in this short story and how it mirrors the progressive ...

Emotion and Reason in the Wroks of Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Herman Melville

In ten pages this paper considers the authors' perspectives on reason and emotion as reflected in Ellison's 'Invisible Man,' Hemin...

Moral Liability and Race in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In one page this essay discusses how this novel could be interpretated as a story involving moral liability that results from raci...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Accuracy of Media Coverage

In five pages this research paper examines reporting by the media in an evaluation of its accuracy in a consideration of the conce...

Perspectives on The BBC World Service

in the global as well as national arena then there has to be a broad consideration of what the perspective of the stakeholders are...

Oppression as Seen in Various Works

2002; 131). In this she is clearly summing up some of her particular condition, in relationship to her race and oppression in soci...

Liberal Arts The Key to the Future from a Critical Perspective

the failure of the present day education system, or how many people seek a specialized education and miss out on too much of the n...

Authors look at Bartleby

kind of man would have dismissed Bartleby at once. Melville allows the narrator to be aware of this fact, which raises him in the...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

An Analysis of Melville's Bartleby The Scrivener

to isolate themselves in worlds of their own construction. The characters of Bartleby and the lawyer both possess their own brand...

Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener" - 'Eminently Safe'

them, much of which is brought about by Bartlebys unusual behavior (Dickstein, 2005). The method by which Melville (2004) address...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Comparative Character Analysis of Babo in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

These literary characters are contrasted and compared in four pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...