Herman Melville

burden of guilt brought upon him. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been gone for three years, seeks revenge on Dimmesdale. In Moby Dick, another American gothic novel, there is a great deal of revenge seeking. The novel Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, is an epic saga of the voyage of the Pequod, a whaling ship, and its captain, Ahab, who endlessly stalked the great sperm whale, Moby Dick, during a journey around the world. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both play the part as the…

novel that is about the sin and life of Hester Prynne and the novel also portrays acts of evil demonstrated by Roger Chillingworth, the ex-husband of Hester who she cheated on. Another American Gothic novel that portrays evil is Moby Dick by Herman Melville, written in 1851, which is about a sailor who is after the white whale that took his leg, this character also portrays a lot of evil acts throughout this novel. Both evil characters, Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have many similarities…

Considering white supremacy shaped society in American 19th century, texts like Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave reveal that white individuals rely on performance to interact with others, and thus, blacks are also forced into performing specific roles. The traditional white role, as seen in the two texts, is to uphold the superiority of the white race by uniting against the black one. Contrastingly, the black race is expected to play the part of a dutiful…

that even the most beautiful things have hints of imperfection. Likewise, a sense of vagary is created in “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and it is enhanced through a character driven style of writing. In the passage, “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville a sense of vagary is created through character driven events. Bartleby is a short story about a successful lawyer who has 3 loyal employees all representing stages of life and work experience. His oldest employee, Turkey, was very…

“Behind every great man, there is a great woman”. This quote is really important because it shows that females have a huge impact on every men’s life. Many females in this time have freedom and we can actually be independent from men, but it wasn’t always the same. Back in history females were could not give an opinion about anything. The only thing that females could do was raise children and decide what their family was going to eat. Many complains started to come out about this treatment,…

Who exactly was Nathaniel Hawthorne? Nathaniel Hathorne was born on July 4th, of 1804. He was son to Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and his wife Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. Captain Hathorne died in 1808 at sea of yellow fever, leaving Elizabeth with no financial support to raise her three children Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Louisa. They were forced to move in with Elizabeth's brothers in Salem. This is often thought to be where his introverted personality started. While here, Nathaniel had a…

Bard High School Early College Queens Rafia Islam Literature of the Americas November 19, 2015 "Tartarus of Maids" by Herman Melville In Melville's "Tartarus of Maids" the setting is described in elaborate detail. It is set in New England, which is now known as the United States. In the first page of the text, the narrator describes a paper mill in the middle of the mountains. This is a very peculiar place for a mill and it seems hard to get to because the narrator describes it as…

in Green Grass, Running Water then the mutineer and murderer in Benito Cereno. Having a reference such as Babo in Green Grass, Running Water plays a key role because in both texts Babo works in the opposite manor than Benito Cereno or Sgt. Cereno. Melville and King both display to the readers that African-Americans were not treated as equals and who’s purpose was to aid and serve the dominant white culture. The main difference between Babo (the slave) and Babo Jones is that Babo (the slave)…

Rafia Islam Literature of the Americas December 6, 2015 Isolation in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville and “The Minister 's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two very interesting and thought provoking works of literature. They take everyday objects and subjects and transform these ideas into stories. Both of these short stories were written…

One day, Cooper’s wife was reading aloud Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Cooper criticized the book, which resulted in his wife betting him to write literature of better quality (Rosenblum). The result was Precaution, which launched Cooper’s literary career (Rosenblum). After the publication of Precaution, Cooper wanted to write about the American landscape and history in an effort to entertain his readers (Rosenblum). He then published his second novel, The Spy which was immensely popular and…