Herman Melville

Zombies Yesterday, Zombies Tomorrow, Zombies Forever For every leading character in a story, there is something that acts against them. As with "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville and Zone One by Colson Whitehead, the main characters both face similar antagonists. Both set in New York City, these two pieces of literature share many parallels. But the biggest similarity they share is in the similarity in their antagonists characters. With both of these, the antagonist works to not only…

Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, evil manifests in Roger Chillingworth when his wife, Hester Prynne, commits adultery with the town priest, Arthur Dimmesdale. This sin creates Pearl, Hester’s daughter. Another American gothic novel, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, is a story of a man, Ishmael, who wants to find adventure. He does so by joining a whaling ship with Queequeg, his best friend. Tension arises between the ship captain, Ahab, and the crew due to Ahab’s obsession with the great white…

the mid 17th century. Although The Scarlet Letter addresses many characters, the antagonist, Roger Chillingworth, in particular stood out among the rest because of his evil persona. Correspondingly, American gothic novel, Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, focused its attention on Captain Ahab, the protagonist, and his determination to find the one thing in life he had been searching for. Although Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab lived in two completely different atmospheres at…

headquarters. We have always been recognized for our delicious coffee, but we offer pantries, snack, and a variety of healthy product. Starbucks is also named after the coffee-drinking first mate in the novel Moby-Dick (1851) by the American author Herman Melville (Funk & Wagnalls p. 1). Starbucks’s has only one mission, but many tactics on how to stay relevant when it comes to satisfying people. Our primary goal at Starbucks’s is to offer the highest possible standard service and product for…

The Bartebys of the Classroom The Bartlebys of the education system are students who “prefer not to” do their work. I have never understood why someone would come to class and do nothing and expect a good grade. I would assume the student wants to be successful and pass the class they have chosen to take. This can be an issue for composition teachers or teachers in general. The author in the reading nails it on the head when describing the characteristics of a Bartleby student. There are…

terms of weaving a beauty of the unpleasant, the horrifying, and even the grotesque (Spiro par. 1). There were many influential authors that contributed greatly to this movement, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville, who wrote Redburn (Blackwell par. 1). However, the most notable author during this movement was Edgar Allan…

Moby Dick is an adventure fiction novel written by Herman Melville in 1851. Melville became a whaler at the age of 19 and spent a lot of time out on the sea, which drew inspiration for Moby Dick. He actually wrote numerous books about his voyages to sea before Moby Dick, such as Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life and Mardi and a Voyage Thither. Moby Dick took place during the American Renaissance (1830s-1840s) and took place on a ship called “Pequod” which sailed through the Pacific, Indian, and…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the vengeance of a man after his ex-wife suffers for her sin in a small town in Boston whilst taking care of her daughter she bore after cheating on him with the town minister. Herman Melville wrote a similar American gothic novel titled Moby Dick, which is about a wildly obsessed captain seeking revenge and death on a gargantuan white whale along with his shipmates. The Character, Captain Ahab, was written after King Ahab in the Bible…

In every part of history, Gothic literature has been known for its basis of sin andevil. By vaguely evaluating the two novel-based movies, The Scarlet Letter by NathanielHawthorne and Moby Dick by Herman Melville, one may seem to only find differences.The Scarlet Letter is about a young married woman named Hester Prynne, who becomespregnant and has a child in the absence of her husband; she is then forced to live in hershame and wear the letter “A” on her bosom for “adulteress”. Once her…

world's pre-eminent dramatist. He changed European theatre by expanding what could be cultivated through addition in plot, characterization and genre. Shakespeare’s work had an impact on famous writers like, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville and Maya Angelou, and continues to influence new authors today. Shakespeare is widely known in the history of the English-speaking countries for his many quotations and coinage, as they have passed into…