Bartleby The Scrivener By Herman Melvile
Justyna Bednarczyk 3DSL
„Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Mellvile
1. Is Bartleby a passive or active character; is he interested in achieving anything?
Bartleby is a very passive character. Not only in the story itself, while compared to the other characters, but as a real person. He is described as “a motionless young man [...] pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn,” “a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey, and the fiery one of Nippers,” “his face was leanly composed; his gray eye dimly calm; not a wrinkle of agitation rippled him.” The narrator recalls that Bartleby is not entirely human in his behaviours and habits. At the end it is mentioned
„Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Mellvile
1. Is Bartleby a passive or active character; is he interested in achieving anything?
Bartleby is a very passive character. Not only in the story itself, while compared to the other characters, but as a real person. He is described as “a motionless young man [...] pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn,” “a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey, and the fiery one of Nippers,” “his face was leanly composed; his gray eye dimly calm; not a wrinkle of agitation rippled him.” The narrator recalls that Bartleby is not entirely human in his behaviours and habits. At the end it is mentioned