YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Essays 211 - 240
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...
vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...
my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me,...
moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...
Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...
Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...
of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...
- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...
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...
the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...
he illustrates how based on the Ricardian Law of Transformation, one can explain why there have been rising levels of crime, loss ...
personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...
freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...
journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...
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 ...
of this, decides to hire him on the spot (Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener). Essentially, he figures that if he looks well...
In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...
In seven pages the consequences of free will are examined within the context of Melville's story. There are no other sources cite...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of contrasting points of view between the salesman of lightning rods and a pro...
In five pages a novel synopsis and conclusion fairness assessment are presented in an analysis of the trial of Billy Budd. There ...
political and social ideals integrated into Melvilles stories and pushed the author to reconsider his religious dedication and his...
Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...
conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...
In five pages this paper examines the strange behavior exhibited by Bartleby throughout the course of Melville's story. There are...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...
In five pages this research paper focuses upon the author's use of setting in this short story and how it mirrors the progressive ...
In six pages this paper examines the novel's primary characters and analyzes them philosophically and morally in regards to good a...
In four pages Damien is reviewed in a consideration of novel characteristics, meanings, metaphors, structure, character, and theme...
In five pages Billy Budd's transcendental nature is examined in terms of the protagonist's exemplification of peacemaking, honesty...