S. Q. 8 Nathanil Hawthorne 433‚ "The Minister’s Black Veil" 457‚ "The Birthmark" 465‚ Herman Melville 504‚ "Bartleby the Scrivener" 507 1. What is the attractive legend about Hawthorne? He was believed to be a shy recluse‚ always brooding in solitude. 2. How do the authors describe Hawthorne? He is described as a public figure‚ capable of a certain urbanity. He is absorbed by the evils of enigma and of moral responsibility. 3. Briefly describe Hawthorne’s background. He was born in
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Mankind is the only known species on Earth to study their behavior in order to control themselves. These continuous studies raise the question‚ can the human race control their own human nature? Through his novella‚ Heart of Darkness‚ Joseph Conrad illustrates his view on humanity and its raw actions. The novella springs from his own experienced up the Congo River‚ where he personally saw the demise of human nature. Because he saw how dreadful the destruction of self is‚ he exemplifies his view through
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productivity‚ and in some cases increases profit. In the case study‚ Bartleby the Scrivener‚ A Tale of Wall Street‚ a fictional character named Bartleby is hired to work for a nameless lawyer‚ who fails on many occasions to utilize these principles in his dealings with his employees; this is especially the case in his efforts with Bartleby. Even still‚ his failure to utilize these practices is revealed long before the introduction of Bartleby‚ who simply exposes his failures to the fullest. The lawyer’s
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characters are more relatable having a narrator who interacts with the protagonist‚ while Hawthorne resigns his narrator to the role of a cynical observer. In the case of both Bartleby and Wakefield‚ the stage is set by a general fixation of the narrator with the protagonists. Melville’s narrator proclaimed that Bartleby “was a scrivener the strangest I ever saw or heard of” and Hawthorne’s narrator saw Wakefield’s actions as “perhaps the strangest‚ instant on record‚ of marital delinquency”. Both authors
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Comment on the title. Why wouldn’t an alternative like “Nea the Troublemaker” be appropriate? Bartleby‚ the Scrivener A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (Page 135) 1. How does the lawyer’s description of himself serve to characterize him? Why is it significant that he is a lawyer and not another profession? 2. Why do you think Turkey‚ Nippers‚ and Ginger Nut are introduced before Bartleby? 3. How is Bartleby’s physical description a foreshadowing of what happens to him? 4. How does
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starves himself as art. A man who cannot eat is guarded by those who slaughter meat for food as a living‚ seemingly mocking the hunger artist’s situation. This circumstance is similar in Bartleby‚ the Scrivener when the grubman provided good meals to Bartleby at the lawyer’s expense. The grubman shoved food at Bartleby even when he renounced everything including food‚ preferring to waste away but food is still given to him as if teasing him. Despite the constant watch over the hunger artist‚ no one believed
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In tandem with literacy‚ literature has become one of the leading vehicles for social criticism in American history. It amplifies the author’s voice‚ reverberating it throughout the nation‚ molding the history of America by changing the opinions of the people on certain issues. It can induce cries of hope and merriment‚ like John Winthrop’s sermon A Model of Christian Charity‚ which speaks about the optimistic prospect of America as the “City upon a Hill” (Winthrop‚ 84). But it can also elicit the
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Darkness in Poe‚ Hawthorne‚ Melville and Dickinson E.A. Poe‚ Hawthorne‚ Melville and E. Dickinson’s works contain similar elements and images which can be related to the theme of darkness. These authors used these motives as their main subject throughout their works. Some of them led very gloomy and dark life so they used those experiences to utter their feelings by putting them on the paper. These poems and works can come across as kind of morbid at first sight
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Masks are described in Carl Jung’s theory of multiple archetypes in his essay “The Personal and The Collective Unconscious.” Furthermore‚ archetypes are used to identify and unveil the masks worn by the narrating lawyer in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener.” The contents of the collective unconscious by Jung are represented in the lawyer’s character symbolized through three masks: God Complex‚ Father Complex and Mother Complex. The narrator’s persona evolves into masks from the God Complex
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Swimming pools: Similar to the short story‚ The Swimmer‚ my neighborhood has many swimming pools. Like the setting in the story‚ they seem to form a snake-like‚ “quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the country” (Norton 2‚ 1234). My swimming pool is physically similar to many of the pools in the story as it is located in the backyard‚ fenced up‚ and contains water. Physical differences include the gradual slope into the deep end‚ a diving board‚ as well as multi-colored underwater lighting
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