SEARCH RESULTS

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

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

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

politics of the time did. It seemed to be a time of little direction, and the writing of the period reflects this. It can be said...

Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Years of Exile is one such piece of literary work that is a reflection of Melvilles typical nature in that it befits the very esse...