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Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Post Reading Exercises

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Billy Budd and Tommy Contemporary Operas

When he recover his senses, yet it still marked by his Uncle Ernie as a phenomena, the public revolts, but it is nevertheless true...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

Eighty Eighth Chapter of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

of men. Men, primarily those men on the ship, are men who are likely "dangerous to encounter" on an ordinary day. They are perhaps...

Theme of Victimization in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Redburn, and Wieland

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...

White Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Narrator and Protagonist's Relationship in 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...

'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and the Narrator

In five pages this paper examines the mental stability of the narrator in this famous story by Herman Melville. There are no othe...

Laws of Nature in Billy Budd

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Herman Melville uses the novel to discuss how nature's laws do not always pr...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines various themes including racism as they relate to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Five sources ar...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Prejudice and Slavery in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...

Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

Literary Device of Suspense in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

Characters Created by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Manifestation of Personal Identity

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Behavior in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines the strange behavior exhibited by Bartleby throughout the course of Melville's story. There are...

'The Lightning Rod Man' by Herman Melville

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of contrasting points of view between the salesman of lightning rods and a pro...

'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines the social and economic implications of this short story in a character analysis of Bartleby. T...

Moral Liability and Race in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In one page this essay discusses how this novel could be interpretated as a story involving moral liability that results from raci...

Potter and Franklin in Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile by Herman Melville

Years of Exile is one such piece of literary work that is a reflection of Melvilles typical nature in that it befits the very esse...

Works of Herman Melville and Ernest Hemingway and the Uses of Phallic Symbolism

In seven pages phallic symbolism is considered in a comparative analysis of Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener' and Hemingway's 'H...