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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...

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...

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...

What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and Life Expectations

In five pages these 2 works by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman are examined in terms of the author's inspirationa...

Tragic Masterpiece Antigone by Sophocles

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

Life and Career of Oliver Wendell Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between Oliver Wendell Holmes' life and works....

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

Life and Works of Charles Babbage

emphasis on manufacture and engineering in that region which initiated his own interest in the subjects....

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...

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...

Literary Device of Suspense in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

In five pages a novel synopsis and conclusion fairness assessment are presented in an analysis of the trial of Billy Budd. There ...

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...

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...

Theology of Herman Melville in his Writings

political and social ideals integrated into Melvilles stories and pushed the author to reconsider his religious dedication and his...

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...

Comparing 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'

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

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Character Captain Vere

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Passage from Chapter 87 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me,...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and the Development of Ishmael

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

Comparision of 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Unique Aspects of Billy Budd by Herman Melville

why he engaged in such long sentences. Anyone who has read "Moby Dick," as well as "Billy Budd," will quickly recognize how Melvil...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Chapter 30

served to deflect and in part falsify them" (Melville). Now at first look these lines appear to be nothing that would indicate ...

'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

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

Good and Evil Humanity in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...