Herman Boone

type of mental illness you could be diagnosed with, many people seek help for their psychological problems which guides them from physical and emotional suffering. Mental illness plays a huge factor in the short stories, Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, it illustrates a severe isolating role. A common symptom which ties Bartleby and Gregor together, is the theme of struggle and importance of feeling disconnect. Bartleby is separated from everyone…

Vaseline’s story begins with Robert Augustus Chesebrough, the founder, finding inspiration through whale oilers. The oilmen smeared the whale oil on their skin to heal cuts and burns; ever since then Vaseline has been a major household brand. Around 1964 they released an advertisement featuring the Bollywood actor Prem Chopra. In this advertisement Vaseline employs the use of ethos, by displaying Chopra, and claiming he uses their cream, and logos, by claiming the cream will make you look cooler…

ventures in search of the scorn of the seas. The “world” spoken of- a damned whaling ship, marked by the foreboding albatross for a watery death at the hands of wrathful God. Captained by wickedness and run by figures of the Old Testament, the ship Herman Melville uses biblical allusions in revenge tragedy, Moby Dick to illustrate the eventual fates of the crew aboard the Pequod and flesh out each character's perception and emotions. Ishmael acts as the reader's keyhole view into the…

Terrible tragedies impact virtuous people every day, seemingly without justification. Although these horrific occurrences have no apparent cause—these people may not have committed a wrongdoing or any otherwise immoral act to deserve such a punishment—they occur anyway, subjecting the unfortunate victims to unfair tragedy. The inability of humanity to find reason behind these unjust events relates to the philosophical school of absurdism, and in particular, the amorality of the universe, a key…

The American Dream as Depicted in “On Her Own Ground” and “The Fist that Ate the Whale” Introduction This essay will feature two extraordinary biographies, A’Lelia Bundles’ “On Her Own Ground” and Rich Cohen’s “The Fish that Ate the Whale.” Bundles’ book is named New York Bestseller in 2001 and received several prestigious awards. As a direct descendent to Madam C. J. Walker, she was compelled to share the legacy and struggles of her ancestor to the world. The facts presented in the…

Undoubtedly, “The Second Shepherd’s Play” in the same manner as a variety of plays or poems concerning the Middle Ages, is one to focus its attention on Cristian beliefs and its fundamental teachings. Observed by many as a mystery play, the play follows three shepherds and two additional characters and furthermore adds a delightful twist to conclude the message encoded. Nonetheless, such as other literary works of the era, “The Second Shepherd’s Play” stablishes its motifs and internal…

Symbolism is when a writer uses an object or sign in a physical form to represent an idea. The use of symbolism was popular in the Romantic period of literature from around 1800 to 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his use of symbolism in his stories. In 1850, Hawthorne used this technique while writing The Scarlet Letter. He did this to make the reader think deeper about the story, and to make it have a figurative meaning. A symbol doesn’t always have to be an object or a sign, in the case…

readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor (An inside narrative) uses several aspects of theology to capture character’s emotions about the “Handsome Sailor.” Melville’s elegant diction alludes to the “doctrine of Man’s…

would be entirely foreign to the other had they ever had the opportunity to meet. One struggled daily to obtain food while the other could simply purchase it at the local store. Despite their separation in in the gulf of time, Mary Rowlandson and Herman Melville shared similar experiences in witnessing the interaction of two cultures and…

Innocence The role of innocence in Rappaccini’s Daughter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bartleby the Scrivener written by Herman Melville is not simply as a characteristic or state of being, rather, it is a factor that influences and concludes the tragic events that occur in both stories. While this factor does not apply to all characters from each novel, it does apply to the narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener and to Giovanni and Rappaccini respectively from Rappaccini’s Daughter. In…