Compare And Contrast Benjamin Franklin And Bartleby

What makes a writer, so unique? What draws a reader to read a writer’s material? Can it be the characters in the story, what the writer is trying to convey to the reader or the point of view? When you think of two great writers do Benjamin Franklin and Herman Melville come to mind? Both Franklin and Melville have both similar and different views about society in the stories “The Way to Wealth” and “Bartleby”. From beginning to end Franklin exemplified hard work, persistence, and positive thinking, which is why he was one of the wealthiest individuals in America. Franklin and his one of a kind notions and intelligence provided his generation and ours with a different viewpoint on society and political events. Melville on the other hand, message was to show how society has a small amount of patience for social deviance. Bartleby represents just what Melville felt about capitalism and imprisonment. The similarities that came up with these readings are Franklin …show more content…
Franklin uses Poor Richard to encourage people to take advantage of the economic opportunities that became open by the new America, in which established a positive view of society. In contrast, Melville’s narrator, the lawyer, is extremely bothered by Bartleby, a social outcast. For example: The lawyer was not able to get Bartleby to move out of the office so he takes matters into his own hand and moves into a new office. In that way that led to evaluating the American capitalist model. Another difference that was gained from reading the story “The Way to Wealth” was Benjamin Franklin was a very powerful man and not only was he an excellent writer he knew the way to wealth. Through his writing, he teaches the reader that we must know his writing “ The Way to Wealth”. On the other hand Franklin displayed how he was able to move beyond the ordinary to impart his unique outlook on wealth and