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'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...

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...

Comparing 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Character Captain Vere

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

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...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Chapter 30

served to deflect and in part falsify them" (Melville). Now at first look these lines appear to be nothing that would indicate ...

Unique Aspects of Billy Budd by Herman Melville

why he engaged in such long sentences. Anyone who has read "Moby Dick," as well as "Billy Budd," will quickly recognize how Melvil...

Typee by Herman Melville and its Ethnological and Analytical Observations

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

Good and Evil Humanity in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...

Comparision of 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...

Accuracy of Media Coverage

In five pages this research paper examines reporting by the media in an evaluation of its accuracy in a consideration of the conce...

Three Science Fiction Novels and Intelligent Machines

In five pages this paper analyzes how intelligent machines are featured in Galatea by Richard Powers, Neuromancer by William Gibso...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Philip Dick's The Man in the High Castle

The conclusion ambiguities of Philip Dick's The Man in the High Castle are examined in five pages with a possible ending rewriting...

Liberal Arts The Key to the Future from a Critical Perspective

the failure of the present day education system, or how many people seek a specialized education and miss out on too much of the n...

Perspectives on The BBC World Service

in the global as well as national arena then there has to be a broad consideration of what the perspective of the stakeholders are...

Mercerism and Electric Sheep

grabs the handles of the box can see Mercer, who is shown to be an old man trying to climb a hill while other figures throw rocks ...

Ubik: the social and political culture of the 1960s

than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...

The Contest of Superpowers in Vulcan's Hammer

Unity and the Vulcans tyrannical power calling themselves The Healers. The Healers seek to overthrow the Vulcans and Unity to rest...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Authors look at Bartleby

kind of man would have dismissed Bartleby at once. Melville allows the narrator to be aware of this fact, which raises him in the...

Essential Elements of Great Literature and Writers

In five pages great works of literature written by esteemed authors are examined in order to reveal the crucial elements that cont...

Comparison and Analysis of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In nine pages Melville's message in Billy Budd is analyzed and then the novel is compared to the works by Arthur Miller and Toni M...

Comparative Character Analysis of Babo in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

These literary characters are contrasted and compared in four pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Water and Taoism

Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Symbolism

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...