Melville’s “Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids” Responses
2. Word choice in the first two pages that suggest corruption are those like “luxury”(1), “immortal fame”(1), “fuller cells”(2) of wine, and “glorious dinners”(2). The knights started to only care about wealth, wine and happening a good time, dismissing the needs of the poor people. Their instruments turned into “a one-handed quill”(2) to attack in court using law and the motivation of charging high fees to their clients. The knights mission has become to defend people in court as lawyers and live comfortably as a bachelor with the money they charge their clients.
4. The narrator represents the industrial revolution as damaging and corrupting nature, the “Blood River”(7) and the lifeless maidens, too. The allegory suggests that industries corrupt the innocent nature and girls, as well as taking the maidens’ humanity as they work as slaves in the factories. Cupid shows no interest in the maiden's’ well-being and justifies the horrid conditions that they work in. Although Cupid is cheerful and proud of the paper mill, he shows no …show more content…
The significance of the production of the maids’ labor of paper is that, like the narrator noticed, John Locke compares “the human mind at birth to a sheet of blank paper”(15) and the paper symbolizes women giving birth to mankind who aren’t predestined to be damned, but emphasizes the notion of choosing your own destiny. The irony of the paper is that it is made with machinery that symbolizes the corruption of men to women to sin, or create blank paper. The significance of the white around the maids suggests innocence, but also suggest emptiness; such as when the narrator describes the maids as “blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands, all blankly folding blank paper”(10), Their blank expression and lack of speak suggests they’re unwillingness to be there and that the feel like slaves for not having any other option to gain
2. Word choice in the first two pages that suggest corruption are those like “luxury”(1), “immortal fame”(1), “fuller cells”(2) of wine, and “glorious dinners”(2). The knights started to only care about wealth, wine and happening a good time, dismissing the needs of the poor people. Their instruments turned into “a one-handed quill”(2) to attack in court using law and the motivation of charging high fees to their clients. The knights mission has become to defend people in court as lawyers and live comfortably as a bachelor with the money they charge their clients.
4. The narrator represents the industrial revolution as damaging and corrupting nature, the “Blood River”(7) and the lifeless maidens, too. The allegory suggests that industries corrupt the innocent nature and girls, as well as taking the maidens’ humanity as they work as slaves in the factories. Cupid shows no interest in the maiden's’ well-being and justifies the horrid conditions that they work in. Although Cupid is cheerful and proud of the paper mill, he shows no …show more content…
The significance of the production of the maids’ labor of paper is that, like the narrator noticed, John Locke compares “the human mind at birth to a sheet of blank paper”(15) and the paper symbolizes women giving birth to mankind who aren’t predestined to be damned, but emphasizes the notion of choosing your own destiny. The irony of the paper is that it is made with machinery that symbolizes the corruption of men to women to sin, or create blank paper. The significance of the white around the maids suggests innocence, but also suggest emptiness; such as when the narrator describes the maids as “blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands, all blankly folding blank paper”(10), Their blank expression and lack of speak suggests they’re unwillingness to be there and that the feel like slaves for not having any other option to gain