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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...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Symbolism Associated with the Whale

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

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 ...

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...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Analyzing Herman Melville's Moby Dick Chapter 87

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

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...

Reading Activities Associated with Teaching Herman Melville's Moby Dick

something like "I found one of the most impressive images that Melville used was to say that Ahab looked like he had been cast in ...

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,...

Analyzing 'The Great Armada' Chapter of Herman Melville's Moby Dick

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

Individual Rights' Revocation

In five pages this paper considers the revocation of an individual's rights in the military system in an examination of The Caine ...

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...

Billy Budd and Tommy Contemporary Operas

When he recover his senses, yet it still marked by his Uncle Ernie as a phenomena, the public revolts, but it is nevertheless true...

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...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines various themes including racism as they relate to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Five sources ar...

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...

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...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Domesticity in Chapters 87 and 88 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapter 87 One of the most powerful things we note in this particular chapter is the focus on issues of warfare and battle, issu...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Ahab's Character

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

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

Transcendentalists and Nathaniel Hawthorne

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

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...

Prejudice and Slavery in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...