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    The Joseph Long Papers incorporates one letter composed by Joseph Taper, living in Canada, to his previous proprietor Joseph Long. In this November 11, 1840 letter, Taper clarifies he was constrained away, however has no second thoughts since he and his family can bring home the bacon and go to class. Thecrease depicts what is conceded to "each shaded man" who needs to settle in Canada. This letter gives a few subtle elements of his encounters of getting to Canada. Fuhermore, Joseph Taper was a…

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    (23.) To allow Bartleby to stay at his dwelling (house) until they find a job pleasing to him. No, all the lawyer wants is to rid himself of the problematic Bartleby and keep his good public image. (26.) 1: Speaks to one of the jail's officers on behalf to tell him that Bartleby is an "honest" man, just a rather irregular individual. 2. He takes time out to actually come visit Bartleby 3.He speaks to the "grub-man" and pays him to make a most delightful meal for Bartleby. (27.) The lawyer may…

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    good Christian to help Bartleby, trying to give Bartleby a place to stay in his own home and offering everything he can. The narrator insisted on learning further about Bartleby than the contrasting employees.The narrator tries to give Bartleby money and offers Bartleby a place to stay at his own home. No matter if the narrator leaves or Bartleby prefers not to, the narrator doesn't stop trying. The fact that the narrator is a round character and that the conflict of Bartleby not preferring to…

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    Bartleby is a scrivener, a common job involving labor. Bartleby works with the Lawyer to allow his business to function. Bartleby, along with the other scriveners, are at the disposal of the Lawyer for work. The term that Foley can applies to them is that they are “wage slaves” (91). Foley also notes, “Marxist critics have argued that ‘Bartleby’ offers a portrait of the increasing alienation of labor in the rationalized capitalist economy that took shape in the mid-nineteenth-century United…

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    The boss was shocked and clueless why Bartleby was there. Then he realized, “Bartleby must have ate, dressed, and slept in my office.”(Bartleby, the Scrivener). Bartleby had no matters to even find his own place to live in, so he took advantage of his boss to live in the office. Eventually at the end of the story Bartleby died, because he refused to eat. According to Wikipedia, “Bartleby 's death suggests the effects of depression—having no motivation to survive”(Wikipedia)…

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    present in the work “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville. Capitalism is present in sense that the story takes place on Wall Street. The take away of Wall Street and capitalism is that hard work reaps benefits in the form of monetary and respect. In laymen terms wall street and capitalism is all about the effort that you put in will led to the result and you are in charge of the destiny based on skill and work productivity. Examining “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A…

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    the first person type view in the next story called Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.…

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    Bartleby Futility

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    Bartleby, who works as a legal scribe for the tale’s narrator, is a strange, pale man with an eerie indifference to the world around him. By calmly refusing to do anything that is asked of him, he takes part in his own form of passive resistance against the…

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    There are many pieces of literature and media that embody the idea of transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism. In this quarter, we have read Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. We have also watched the films Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Fight Club, all of which refers to transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism in some way or another. Transcendentalism is the belief that knowledge of reality is derived…

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    Poe and Hawthorne’s stories share a comparable major theme, one of fear and sin. They each possess distinctive details of how each person deals with the sin within himself and those around them. In “bartleby the Scrivener”, Melville shows just how much one can suffer with no one else noticing. Bartleby starves himself to death and only after he is found dead, the lawyer realizes the cause of his pain.…

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