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Bartleby and Hamlet, 2003.
A comparison of the tragic hero of Hamlet and the character of the old lawyer in Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener".
1,501 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper emphasizes specific passages in the story where the lawyer is given the opportunity to create positive action, but instead chooses the passive aggressive route. The author finds that the lawyer is like Hamlet in that his melancholy temperament leads him to over-think the situation instead of taking action.
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"Herman Melville?s short story, Bartleby the Scrivener, has many complex themes that are interwoven into the tale of a lawyer and his odd employees. The oddest employee is one by the name of Bartleby. The story is told from the perspective of a lawyer on Wall Street. The Lawyer, who is never named, is a very complex and interesting character, perhaps even more interesting than the character of Bartleby. Though the Lawyer is the voice for the story, he is not a highly reliable narrator. The Lawyer?s view of himself, as well as the other characters, is often skewed and contradictory. The story could be said to be a tragedy due to the pathetic death of Bartleby at the end of the story. Though Bartleby does die and the scene is of a tragic nature, the true tragic figure is not Bartleby, but instead is the Lawyer. The Lawyer, much like the tragic hero of Hamlet, suffers from fits of melancholy, which cause him to hesitate instead of taking action where action is necessary. The story is riddled with examples of his inaction, hesitation, and passiveness, due to his melancholy temperament."
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Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2004.
This paper examines the character of Bartleby in Herman Melville's novel "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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This paper iscusses the theme of Herman Melville's story, "Bartleby the Scrivener." The author points out that, as a story of self-destruction, the tale is about a man Bartleby who succumbs to the strain of attempting to conform to the rules of a society, which he no longer believes in. The paper relates that the story is written from the point of view of the narrator and his attempt to save Bartleby.
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"Herman Melville's creation Bartleby, who appears in his story "Bartleby, the Scrivener", is a man who lives in a highly straightened world. His story is that of a man who at first appears as if he should be able to meet the expectations of his society. Bartleby ..."
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?Bartleby the Scrivener? by Herman Melville, 2006.
This paper examines the main character, Bartleby, in Herman Melville's, short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener."
925 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 32.95
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This paper analyzes how Melville's character, Bartleby, symbolizes the barriers that surround us, the encroachment of the corporate world and the futility of fulfilling the American Dream, which has grown to be a model for the majority of short stories in western literature. The paper,which includes a brief review of the book, goes on to explain that short stories are written for more than just entertainment and that western literature is one of the defining elements in western civilization.
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"Wall Street, the financial institution symbolizes the encroachment of the corporate business. Bartleby and the other scriveners industriously making copies like a cog in the big machine of life. Almost like cattle, being pushed and prodded into a particular direction. Similarly in John Updike's "A & P" the setting of the grocery store combined with the behavior of the customers portrays the same message. "I bet you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by and large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering "Let me see, there was a third thing, began with A, asparagus, no, ah, yes, applesauce!" or whatever it is they do mutter" (693). The industrialization of our homeland often leaves us with a belittled feeling and without identity. Melville reiterates these points in this passage: "What miserable friendlessness and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible!"
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"Bartleby the Scrivener", 2005.
Examines the narrator's changing attitudes toward Bartleby ,the Scrivener's soul, in this novel by Herman Melville.
762 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 27.95
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Herman Mellville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" relates the story of an employee at a Wall Street firm whose unconventional behavior captures the attention of his employer and disrupts the functioning of the office. As Bartleby's supervisor becomes familiar with the scrivener's unorthodox behavior, his attitudes toward his nihilistic employee evolve. The selection chosen for analysis in this paper reflects in microcosm the lawyer's changing attitudes toward Bartleby. In this selection, Melville's changing diction, point of view and tone all help him to portray the narrator's changing attitudes toward Bartleby and his conclusion concerning Bartleby's soul.
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"The narrator's point of view also evolves during the selection. As it begins, the narrator speaks in first person and has almost no insight into Bartleby's thoughts and feelings, which he describes as "dead-wall reveries" (p. 555), indicating his lack of insight. As the passage continues, the narrator develops a greater insight into Bartleby's actions. Although the passage continues to be narrated in the first person, Bartleby's employer indicates his increasing empathy and understanding. He states that "to a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul be rid of it" (p. 556). This shows his increasing understanding of Bartleby's idiosyncrasies and the escalating level of empathy that he feels for his strange employee."
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2001.
This is an in-depth analysis of Herman Melville's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This essay details the plot of the story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" about a man named Bartleby that lives a hopeless and pitiful existence. As the story goes on, Bartleby becomes a successful professional working with lawyers. The narrator of the story is a lawyer who worked with Bartleby and details his memories of him. This paper compares these two characters: the narrator and Bartleby.
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"At first reading, Bartleby?s story seems nothing more than a hopeless tragedy. He seems to have no reason to live, and even less a reason to die. He has no friends, no life other than his work. Even that is not pleasing to him, and he stops doing it. There is no purpose to his life. By the end, we wonder if the purpose really was to help others see their own shortcomings, and learn more about themselves. That is what seems to happen to the narrator of the story; he changes forever by knowing this strange, quiet man."
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"Bartleby the Scrivener", 2005.
A review of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener".
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper is an analysis of Bartleby the Scrivener in Melville's short novel, "Bartleby." It addresses Bartleby's iconic representation of lost humanity, spiritual death, the implications of delusion and his unwillingness to promote verifiable truth.
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"In Herman Melville's short novel Bartleby the main character is a mysterious stranger with whom the narrator and therefore the reader, never becomes truly acquainted in spite of repeated efforts. Bartleby is a ghostly presence-devoid ..."
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The Capitalist Ethos in "Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2007.
An exploration of the capitalist work ethic of the main character in Herman Melville's classic short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines how, in the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener", one of the more interesting character interactions is the narrator's reaction to Bartleby. The paper discusses how, if one observes this situation in the context of the ideas of Max Weber, it seems that Weber would most likely credit the way the narrator reacts to Bartleby to the ethos of capitalism instilled in the narrator by his Protestantism. The paper explains that it is this ethos that causes the narrator to be so perplexed by Bartleby, as well as what leads to the narrator's compassion towards him.
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"In order to claim that that narrator's capitalist ethos is at the root of the narrator's reaction we must first show that the narrator indeed has such an ethos. In "Bartleby" the narrator exhibits ascetic Protestantism, which Weber claims is the religious foundation that defines the current capitalist ethos. It is easy to see that the narrator is religious when his is "... [going] to Trinity Church," (Melville 16). Even more proof comes on page 28 when the narrator reads Jonathan Edwards and is mulling over the issue of predestination. Both of these are signs that the narrator is Calvinist, as Edwards was a Puritan writer and predestination is a predominantly Calvinist principle. Signs of asceticism also show up in the setting of the narrator's office, which has windows that "...afford a lateral view of certain grimy back-yards and bricks," (8) and is scantly decorated. It is evident that in "Bartleby" the narrator has a Protestant background that instills in him an ethos of capitalism that affects his relation with his scrivener Bartleby."
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Herman Melville?s "Bartleby the Scrivener", 2005.
This paper analyzes Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener", about a man who withdraws from life.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper explains that the story of Bartleby is ambiguous because the reader sees Bartleby's life entirely from the outside, never hearing anything in Bartleby's own voice except the repeated, "I would prefer not to." The author points out that some critics see Melville's image of Bartleby as reflecting his view of Henry David Thoreau and as a satirical comment on Thoreau's writings; Melville was fixated on Thoreau, despite the fact that there is no evidence that he ever met him. The paper concludes that Melville's life is more clearly evident in his sea stories; much of what is thought about his inner life and how it is reflected in this story is highly speculative although the ways he treats other characters faced with authority are similar to his other works.
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"It is possible that Bartleby has had some revelation about his life and has come to an understanding of the need to escape it. This is never clear, but Bartleby's way of escaping is clear--he withdraws into himself. Bartleby withdraws into a smaller and smaller space until he is not there at all. In his own way, Bartleby is quite reasonable about his withdrawal, a fact noted by the narrator when Bartleby first makes his declaration of preference: "With any other man, I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but, in a wonderful manner, touched and disconcerted me.""
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"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" by Herman Melville, 2001.
This paper analyzes the writing style of "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
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This paper details the writing style of a paragraph within "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street." It focuses on how the author uses a certain style to bring out character traits, storyline, and tone. It further examines how an author can use a dull character to tell an interesting story.
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"'Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,' is perhaps one of the earliest and most potent satires of American corporate culture in the American literary canon. It tells the story of a scrivener. A scrivener is a law-copyist. This particular copyist named Bartleby infuriates his superiors by his refusal to work. Such a refusal is not only anathema to them, it confounds them. They attempt to fire him, but Bartleby refuses to leave his office. It is through his refusal to work, and to give no coherent reason for doing so other than he would prefer not to, that the entire system is shaken. This paper analyzes a paragraph of the short story and illustrates how the paragraph?s language, its literary devices, and its tone expose the short story?s central themes."
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"Bartleby the Scrivener", 2002.
An examination of the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville.
2,610 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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A psychoanalytic interpretation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" can be focused in one of two ways--a psychoanalytic connection between author and character and a psychoanalytic interpretation of the story itself. This paper shows how Melville formed the psychology of the characters and created a unique psychological bond between Bartleby and his employer. The two approaches really are interconnected as the situation of Bartleby mirrors aspects of Melville's own life.
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"The title character in "Bartleby the Scrivener" is fascinating because he is so outwardly unformed as a character. Bartleby is a man who withdraws from life. He does not do so as a protest, and indeed a protest would have to be an overt act of the sort quite out of character for him. His prison is entirely internalized. He creates his own prison, though the fear on the part of his boss is that perhaps Bartleby sees more than the rest of us and has lost hope because he knows that we are all in some sort of prison. The story of Bartleby is ambiguous because we see his life entirely from the outside, never hearing anything in Bartleby's own voice except the repeated, "I would prefer not to." Our view of Bartleby is through the eyes of his puzzled employer, a man who wants desperately to understand but who ultimately is left as uncertain as we."
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Re-Diagnosing "Bartleby the Scrivener", 2005.
Revised opinion about the which characters are significant in Herman Melville's story "Bartleby the Scrivener" and the true message of the story.
22,576 words (approx. 90.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper offers a second diagnosis of Herman Melville's story "Bartleby the Scrivener" and suggests that, in basic literary terms, it is the lawyer not Bartleby that is the dynamic character in the tale. Bartleby, the existential symbol, may collapse but only the lawyer can change.
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"Second, although standard definitions nominate the lawyer as the round, major, and dynamic character of Melville's tale of a law office, Bartley is equally round, as least with the limits of his illness, and he also changes in his deterioration. Technically, if he is not the major character, he is the essential character, dipped in that "power of blackness," the phrase Melville used in a review of "Mosses from an Old Manse" to praise Hawthorne."
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2007.
An analysis of the story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville.
974 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses how Herman Melville's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener", is an unusual story without a clear meaning. The paper relates that critics have tried to interpret the story in several ways, one of which would hold that the conflict with Bartleby causes his employer to undergo a spiritual change. The paper then shows that, on the contrary, an examination of the story suggests that the employer is left more puzzled than changed and that he may see something spiritual in Bartleby but not so that he himself changes.
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"The lawyer is a man who likes things to work smoothly and who at the same time tries to greet every even with equanimity, not wanting to let things bother him. He seems to have a nice position, but in truth he has followed the usual route in life--he has compromised with his dreams. He has come to accept what he is and tries not to miss too much the heights he may have dreamed of achieving when he started. Bartleby may also be a man with failed dreams, though if he has dreams we never learn what they are. He has apparently not accepted his lot in life, however, for he seems instead to have been imprisoned by some failure so that now he merely withdraws within himself. "
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?Bartleby, the Scrivener?, 2002.
A review of the book ?Bartleby, the Scrivener:a Story of Wall Street? by Herman Melville with an emphasis on the parallelisms with the New Testament.
2,351 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper shows that although the story of Bartleby does not chronologically follow the events reported in the New Testament, a strong similarity between events can nevertheless be seen. For example, the main character Bartleby is likened to Jesus Christ and the story is about the effect that Bartleby had on those around him.
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"In addition to quickly establishing that the lawyer as a Christian, the sentence also suggests that he apparently did not attend services regularly. In addition to this, it also establishes the fact that he is a man of letters, laws and words rather than of true devotion. His reason for attending a church service is not because of suggested reverence or piousness - or even because of a sense of moral obligation or duty. Instead, the narrator is attending church on this particular morning because he desires to hear a ?celebrated? preacher speak. This seems to be more a matter of entertainment than devotion to him."
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2002.
A comparison of characters in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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A paper which compares and discusses the main character, Bartleby, and the narrator, in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, the great American author. The paper explores who they were and what their lives meant.
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"Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His best-known work is "Moby Dick," and "Billy Budd." Much of Melville's work was not published until after his death, including a book of poems, and many short stories. "Melville wrote because he 'he could not keep from writing,' but he rewrote so frequently, even after he had sent his work to the printer, that any lover of Melville is almost inevitably drawn into examining his 'fluid text.' '…multiple versions can give us tremendous insight into the writer's creative process and how a piece of writing evolves'" (Briggs)."
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Isolation and Compassion in "Bartleby, the Scrivener", 2008.
An analysis of the themes of isolation and compassion in Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper examines the themes of isolation and compassion evident in Herman Melville's parable "Bartleby, the Scrivener". It asserts that the story not only deals with human behaviour, but also with moral issues. The paper points out that Bartleby is an odd, but hard working introvert, hired by a lawyer to copy out legal documents, a job he appeared to do well. However, his refusal to take on any tasks that were outside of his job description, without explanation, led to frustration among the office clerks and a feeling of disbelief from the lawyer. The paper holds that Bartleby's quiet, isolated and non-conforming nature troubled the lawyer. The paper concludes that, according to Melville's parable, one has the choice to make decisions in one's own interests, or one may do what is expected in order to avoid conflict amongst those one cares about.
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"The theme of isolation and compassion are evident in Herman Melville's parable "Bartleby, the Scrivener". Melville begins his "Story of Wall -Street" with comical portraits of the main characters, such as, the "unambitious" lawyer, who was also the narrator of the story, his 3 clerks; Nippers, Turkey, and Ginger Nut, along with the socially outcast scrivener, Bartleby. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" not only deals with human behaviour, but also equally deals with moral issues. It is a story involving the lives of many characters who each struggled for an identity and purpose. Bartleby an odd, but hard working introvert, was hired by the lawyer to copy out legal documents, a job he appeared to do well. However, he refused to take on any tasks that were outside of his job description, without explanation, which led to frustration among the office clerks and a feeling of disbelief from the lawyer. It was Bartleby's quiet, isolated and non-conforming nature that troubled the lawyer. Although the lawyer was influenced and felt pressured to remain dedicated to his duties, it was compassion that confounded him and made his decision extremely difficult, resulting in a tragic and crippling feeling of emptiness and brokenness."
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