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PERSONAL ALIENATION IN LITERATURE.
  Term Paper ID:30703
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Discusses the theme in three literary works.... More...
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Discusses the theme in three literary works. EdgarAllan Poe's "The Purloined Letter." Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street." Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." The literary and narrative content of each story; first person narration. How each work constructs a portrait of a modern her as antihero.

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This research examines the theme of personal alienation in Poe's "The Purloined Letter;" Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street"; and Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The research will set forth the literary and narrative context of the stories and then discuss ways in which each story constructs a portrait of a modern hero as antihero who remains permanently on the periphery of civilization, convention, and morality, sometimes functioning vis-à-vis conventional society as nonfunctional, thus positioning himself as recluse, stranger in a strange land, outsider, anti-authoritarian rebel--even an anarchist. A self-conscious critic of his craft as a dramatist, Bertolt Brecht gives the name "A-effect" or alienation effect to the process whereby a scene or play may "allow the spectator to criti

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"BENITO CERENO."
  Term Paper ID:30324
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Analysis of Herman Melville's story.... More...
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Analysis of Herman Melville's story. Basix in a true story. Difficulties critics faced with the story based on Melville's narrative choices. Theme of innocence and eveil, and spiritual suffering. Role of Captain Delano as central character of the story. Mystery of character of Don Benito. Unfolding of events. Climax. Use of symbols.

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In the story "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville, the author tells a story that had been told before, a true story reported in a book by the real Amasa Delano. The story is interesting for the way the author shapes it so that the reader is led to see the story in one way until a single moment causes a reversal so that everything is seem to be the opposite of what it has seemed until then. Critics have had some difficulty with this story because of this way of telling: If we take Melville's rendering of it as a fable--of innocence and evil, or of spiritual obtuseness and spiritual suffering--we might indeed have to say that the narrative is awkward and negligent in composition, an that it really does not make its point (Berthoff 151).

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"MOBY DICK."
  Term Paper ID:29773
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Analysis of Herman Melville's novel.... More...
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Analysis of Herman Melville's novel. Brief biography of the author. Contends that Melville's obsession with doing things his way characterized his life and fiction. "Moby Dick" as a novel about obsession and clarity of purpose. Extreme level of commitment of Captain Ahab. Arguments of the novel. Its lack of commercial success. Personal reaction.

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Introduction Herman Melville’s professional career as a writer was short-lived, spanning only eleven years. It was between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-six that he published nine novels and a collection of short fiction (Madans vii). The tragedy of his life is that at the end of this period, he appears to have totally given up his writing career and ultimately would work as a customs house inspector, for approximately twenty (20) years, on the docks in New York City. While he merited an obituary in The New York Times, at the time of his death in 1891, he was essentially forgotten. Even his obituary erred in calling him “Henry” Melville. Melville was born into a middle-class family and had the burden of the support foisted upon him at the age of sixteen (16)

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"MOBY DICK."
  Term Paper ID:29312
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Examines the fate of the "Pequod" in Melville's novel.... More...
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Examines the fate of the "Pequod" in Melville's novel. How Melville used biblical allusion as a device of narrative development. Major line of narrative action and Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale, Moby-Dick. Ahab's determination for revenge. How the novel's mood of foreboding is set up by Melville.

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This research examines the dreaded fate of the Pequod, Captain Ahab's vessel in Moby-Dick, as a foregone conclusion, based on Melville's liberal use of biblical imagery and symbolism as a device of foreshadowing the climax of the narrative. The plan of the research will be to set forth the overall pattern of ideas and events in the book and then to discuss how Melville uses biblical allusion as a device for articulating the thoughts that inform the development of the narrative. The major line of narrative action in Moby-Dick deals with the obsession of Captain Ahab, a whaling ship's captain, to search the oceans for a white whale he has named Moby-Dick, which maimed him on a previous voyage. Ahab's determination to exact revenge leads him to repeatedly shift course at sea until he finds the whale -- for which he is no match. Except for Ishmael, a shi

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"MOBY DICK" (HERMAN MELVILLE).
  Term Paper ID:25630
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Novel's epic features, plot, themes (religion, good & evil, nature), characters, interpretations.... More...
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Novel's epic features, plot, themes (religion, good & evil, nature), characters, interpretations.

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Introduction “Call me Ishmael” is the opening line of one of the greatest American novels, Moby Dick. Herman Melville’s tale of the quest for the “Great White Whale” provides a vehicle for the author to explore the larger themes such as man’s place in the universe, though critics have long debated just what Melville was trying to accomplish. This paper will analyze those various interpretations and whether they capture Melville’s intent. Moby Dick as an American Epic Melville, in writing the book, attempted to create an American epic. The traditional definition of an epic is an extended narrative, usually a poem, which celebrates the heroic tradition of a people. The English poem Beowulf and the Greek poems Iliad and Odyssey are classic examples of epics. Melville’s work captu

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:16658
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Significance & purposes of various representations of whales in novel. Images, symbolism, relationships with humans.... More...
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Significance & purposes of various representations of whales in novel. Images, symbolism, relationships with humans.

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"TYPEE".
  Term Paper ID:15954
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Analyses novel's primitivist theme, plot, romanticism, philosophical aspects, archetypes.... More...
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Analyses novel's primitivist theme, plot, romanticism, philosophical aspects, archetypes.

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"BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER."
  Term Paper ID:15665
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Analyzes short story about man who drops out of life.... More...
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Analyzes short story about man who drops out of life.

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"Bartleby the Scrivener" has been hailed as a masterpiece in Herman Melville's short story collection. Within the story Melville weaves both humor and pathos as he, through the voice of the lawyer-narrator, tells the tale of Bartleby, the clerk who regresses farther and farther into his own world until he ceases to live. The story is set on Wall Street, whose aggres-sion contrasts markedly with Bartleby's retreat. The narrator lives Melville his voice to set the tone of the story, and it is through this tone that the THEME is established: that for some men the only way the can cope with the world is to retreat from it, to create their own reality. It is Melville's view that ultimately this will lead to non-exist-ence, but through the narrator he comes to understand (to a degree) the personality that Bartleby has that makes him go on sabba

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"BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER."
  Term Paper ID:15563
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Relationship of narrator & Bartleby in short story of passive resistance.... More...
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Relationship of narrator & Bartleby in short story of passive resistance.

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:15426
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Plot, characters, narration, conflicts, themes, climax, symbolism of epic novel of the great whale.... More...
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Plot, characters, narration, conflicts, themes, climax, symbolism of epic novel of the great whale.

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"BILLY BUDD".
  Term Paper ID:14455
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Author's aims, themes, characters, spiritual philosophy.... More...
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Author's aims, themes, characters, spiritual philosophy.

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Billy Budd is Herman Melville's last work, and it was finished shortly before his death in 1891 when the author was 72. It was first published in 1924, helping to reestablish the critical reputation that Melville now has received. One has to remember that Melville was an artist who wrote and published Moby-Dick when he was 31. Though the book is heralded as a masterpiece today (and rightfully so), Melville enjoyed no fitting recognition during his lifetime, spending nearly his last two decades in New York City as a customs inspector. For an author of an unquestionable masterpiece and numerous other excellent literary efforts to go through so much of his life in silence had to have been a great burden. To see how Melville might have dealt with the life forces that created his frustrated career, it is instructive to look to Billy Budd for the writer's final

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"BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER" "BENITO CERENO" & "BILLY BUDD".
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Compares & contrasts main characters.... More...
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Compares & contrasts main characters.

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:10278
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Metaphysical nature of Ahab's quest for whale; imagery, characterization, symbolic philosophy.... More...
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Metaphysical nature of Ahab's quest for whale; imagery, characterization, symbolic philosophy.

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MELVILLE & TRANSCENDENTALISM.
  Term Paper ID:7580
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Relates short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" to 18th Cent. concept of universal brotherhood; Thomas Emerson & Henry Thoreau.... More...
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Relates short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" to 18th Cent. concept of universal brotherhood; Thomas Emerson & Henry Thoreau.

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"BENITO CERENO".
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Colors as symbols of good & evil.... More...
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Colors as symbols of good & evil.

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THE EPIC ASPECTS OF "MOBY DICK" (HERMAN MELVILLE).
  Term Paper ID:5364
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The symbol of [Moby Dick], interactions of men & their god or gods, the fate concept & the concept of predestination.... More...
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The symbol of [Moby Dick], interactions of men & their god or gods, the fate concept & the concept of predestination.

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:5283
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Analysis of the whale as a symbol of evil. Includes views of five authors on the interpretation of the white whale.... More...
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Analysis of the whale as a symbol of evil. Includes views of five authors on the interpretation of the white whale.

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"BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER" & "A HUNGER ARTIST" (FRANZ KAFKA).
  Term Paper ID:5126
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A comparison dealing with the identification of the two main characters within the Christian ethic, their self-denial & for what ends.... More...
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A comparison dealing with the identification of the two main characters within the Christian ethic, their self-denial & for what ends.

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SIN & EVIL IN THE WORKS OF HAWTHORNE & MELVILLE.
  Term Paper ID:5019
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Discusses these concepts in [The Scarlet Letter], [The Marble Faun], [The Blithedale Romance], [Rapaccini's Daughter], "Bartelby the Scrivener," [Moby Dick], [Pierre], [Billy Budd], [Benito Cereno] & [The Encantadas].... More...
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Discusses these concepts in [The Scarlet Letter], [The Marble Faun], [The Blithedale Romance], [Rapaccini's Daughter], "Bartelby the Scrivener," [Moby Dick], [Pierre], [Billy Budd], [Benito Cereno] & [The Encantadas].

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:4767
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Focuses on symbolism of the doubloon. Discusses various characters' reactions to the doubloon.... More...
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Focuses on symbolism of the doubloon. Discusses various characters' reactions to the doubloon.

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:4678
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Author's idea of the nature of good and evil. Discusses various characters' views on good & evil.... More...
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Author's idea of the nature of good and evil. Discusses various characters' views on good & evil.

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"MOBY DICK" & "BENITO CERENO".
  Term Paper ID:2952
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A discussion of the themes of good & evil & life's tragic & ambiguous dimensions.... More...
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A discussion of the themes of good & evil & life's tragic & ambiguous dimensions.

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"BILLY BUDD".
  Term Paper ID:947
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Psychological autopsy of Claggart's death.... More...
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Psychological autopsy of Claggart's death.

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"MOBY DICK".
  Term Paper ID:828
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Focuses on the function of imagery. Discusses novel on its literal level and on its allegorical abstract level.... More...
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Focuses on the function of imagery. Discusses novel on its literal level and on its allegorical abstract level.

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A great deal of Herman Melville's passion was in Moby Dick while he wrote the book. In December, 1850, he wrote to his friend Duycknick: "I have a sort of seafeeling. My room seems a ship's cabin; and at nights when I wake up and hear the wind shrieking, I almost fancy there is too much sail on the house, and I had better go up on the roof and rig in the chimney." That a great deal of Ahab's passion was also in Melville while he created Moby Dick is indicated by the statement made by Melville to Hawthorne that he had written an evil book, a book that was baptized, like Ahab's harpoon, in the name of the Devil, although Melville conversely came away from the task feeling, he said, as innocent as a lamb. The imagery of constraint, frustration, and the obscure mystery of frustration is so pervasive in Moby Dick that one is

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