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In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

of this, decides to hire him on the spot (Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener). Essentially, he figures that if he looks well...

In seven pages the consequences of free will are examined within the context of Melville's story. There are no other sources cite...

In five pages Hemingway's Harold Krebs is compared with Melville's story narrator in an argument that asserts that confrontation f...

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

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

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

through the observations of bystanders, but through his own words that interpret his own feelings and anxiety about the situation....

be read aloud in parts. The students will also be required to advance their daily reading with 20 minutes of outside reading per ...

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

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

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

and unknown. Given that he has no past, no present and no future, its obvious that Bartleby is not a character but a symbol. Wha...

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

In five pages this paper examines the social and economic implications of this short story in a character analysis of Bartleby. T...

In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...

In five pages this paper examines the mental stability of the narrator in this famous story by Herman Melville. There are no othe...

through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...

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

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

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

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

integrity of the individual that makes man worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thou...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...