Herman Boone

Examples of Bartleby’s Eccentricities “Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall Street” was written by Herman Melville. It was written and published in 1853 in New York City. This story is based on a scrivener named Bartleby who works for the narrator of the story in a law office. All seems well with the new employee until he begins to act very strangely. Our narrator struggles throughout the whole plot with how to deal with Bartleby’s eccentricities. The eccentricities are Bartleby’s work ethic…

entrenched in preconceptions, a man’s transformative will and imagination strikes a balance between constraint and hope while maintaining dignity and decency by staying practical yet not losing one’s faith in humanity. In the novella “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville, a sailor, Delano, comes across a shipwreck with a crew on board. The crew is made up of slaves and a weak captain who is guided by one of his slaves. The captain, Cereno, begins to tell the tale of how he ended up in the middle of…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is known as one of the most studied writers from his use of allegory and symbolism. With his ancestors being part of the Salem witchcraft trials, he was burdened with a deep sense of guilt. He then used fiction as a means of exploring the moral dimensions of sin and the human soul. One factor that could have led to Hawthorne writing this story was a new belief system called positivism, which was on the rise during his time. Positivism elevated science. The theme in the story…

A Man of Few Words Melville an author that has wrote many successful stories for instance he wrote Moby Dick, but Moby Dick completely different from “Bartleby the Scrivener” Melville writes about a man who completely never has any intention of working hard. All of the characters in the story have their own personality of course; and Bartleby completely expresses the word different. The other scriveners described as hard working, and cooperates with the narrator who’s their boss. The main…

The short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne are examples of the literary movement of Romanticism and its characteristics which are evidenced in this author’s works. These characteristics are sometimes found in abundant quantities or limited amounts in each of his short stories. However, no matter what short story Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, the Age of Romanticism and its defining characteristics are found in each of his selections. So, too, do each of the author’s short stories present a unique…

and avenues for meaningful connections differ according to the invidivdual, as are the connections that we yearn for equally specific to the person. Because the nature of human connections can be both vague and ambiguous, we will discuss works by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in order to expand our understanding of relationships and connections, in addition to what they encompass. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Melville considers that sharing heritage in addition to the…

treating the people around them. It was between the years 1840-1870 and in those years authors were writing to express the values of courage, honesty, and good morality. In the American Renaissance time period there was a hunger for social reform. Herman Melville acknowledges that people only look out for themselves and their own success in life. Redburn questioned himself on whether he had the “right...to smile and be glad, when sights like this were to be seen.” He feels as if nobody could…

terms of literary criticism, psychoanalysis provides a way to analyze where a character’s actions stem from and thus allowing readers to gain a profounder understanding of their psychological state. Applying Freud’s psychoanalytic to an analysis of Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd, will shed light on certain aspects of the story. In particular, looking closely at…

A Final Chapter This novel is designed in a disconnected manner, it doesn’t simply tell the story of a man on a ship. Meandering thoughts and disconnection is at the start of any process. Melville has used this part of the process in his favor, his book is full of meandering storylines and disconnected threads. In the beginning of the novel Melville writes “Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down a dale and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in…

The presented passge provides an ideal character study of the lawyer, the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener. As the man walks home and analyzes the occurrence of the previous day, he envisioned in details and quickly self-rationalized his success in discharging Bartleby, his scrivener, from his office. The narrator’s syntax and diction demonstrates a character of sophistication and precision, while the rich observation and self-conglaturatory tone in his analysis and reveals his nuanced,…