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Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

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...

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...

Transcendental Billy Budd

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

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...

Melville’s Typee

foreshadows many of the themes that would appear in subsequent works such as Moby Dick" (Proyect). It is a novel that clearly make...

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...

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....

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

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...

Herman Melville's Narrative Voice

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...

A Language Arts Lesson Plan

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

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

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

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...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...

Herman Melville's Billy Budd

Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

Herman Melville's Short Stories 'Tartarus of Maids' and 'The Paradise of Bachelors'

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

Evil Characterizations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville's Billy Budd

In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' and Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener'

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

Qualities of Herman Melville's Billy Budd

In five pages Billy Budd's transcendental nature is examined in terms of the protagonist's exemplification of peacemaking, honesty...

Sin in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Herman Melville's Pierre

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

Herman Melville's 'Bartleby The Scrivener' and Free Will

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

Bartleby in Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener'

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

Concept of Quests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

An Analysis of Moby Dick

Melville is describing again the schoolmaster not just as an animal carrying out instinctual actions, but is describing his behavi...

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 ...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

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

American Literature

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

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

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

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...