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Positions of Billy Budd and Captain Vere in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor

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

Point of View from the First Person

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

Eighty Eighth Chapter of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

of men. Men, primarily those men on the ship, are men who are likely "dangerous to encounter" on an ordinary day. They are perhaps...

'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and the Narrator

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

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Laws of Nature in Billy Budd

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Herman Melville uses the novel to discuss how nature's laws do not always pr...

Transcendental Billy Budd

In five pages this paper discusses how Herman Melville's protagonist exhibits the transcendental qualities of peacemaking, humilit...

White Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...

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...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

Character Analyses of John Claggart, Billy Budd, and Captain Vere in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

This paper examines these three important characters featured in Herman Melville's novel in five pages. There are no sources list...

First US Serial Killer Herman Mudgett

In eight pages this paper examines the documentation related to Herman Mudgett, who is believed to be the first known serial kille...

Herman Melville's Life and Works

In six pages this paper discusses how Herman Melville's life and societal beliefs molded Moby Dick, his literary masterpiece. The...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

story. To be sure, Melville possessed a definite sense of the dramatic, which can be witnessed merely by engaging in the rhetoric...

Narrator and Protagonist's Relationship in 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

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

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Herman Melville’s Piazza Tales

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

Performance of Herman Miller

year-on-year basis, this was also important in terms of new orders, which also increased by 14.7%. The overall performance of th...

Legal Theory and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

The Narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener

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...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

4 Themes in Weiten's Psychology Themes and Variations

In three pages this paper analyzes 4 themes that are featured in this text. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The spiritual development Siddhartha undergoes in its various stages are discussed in this paper consisting of five pages. There ...

'The Stranger' by Albert Camus and the Character of Meursault and 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse

In six pages these characters are philosophically analyzed from Stoic, Sophist, Cynic, Epicurean, and Cyreniac perspectives and ex...

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and The Trial by Franz Kafka

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...