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    story‚ "Bartleby the Scrivener‚ A Story of Wall Street" Herman Melville mentions the "narrative" a law office runner in Wall Street New York. He is a little observer of this story‚ because he perceives details of his office clerk and mentions their characters in minor details‚ especially Bartleby a new scrivener to his office. Barkley is looking unhealthy young man. He is a quiet and hardworking person among other clerk at the lawyer’s office. In the beginning few days of his work‚ Bartleby work very

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    Discussion Questions for “Bartleby the Scrivener” 1. What does the subtitle of “Bartleby” suggest? What is the significance of Wall Street and the walls in the story? 2. What is the significance of the information that the narrator provides about himself and his employees at the beginning of the story? How does it prepare us to understand Bartleby and the narrator’s attitude toward him? 3. Why does Melville tell the story from the point of view of the employer rather than of the office

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    Lissandra Deliz Professor Samyn WIS March 21‚ 2015 “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” The development of our complex modern society has taken shape first in the imagination of its members who‚ through the establishment of a collective unconscious‚ build a set of rules and guidelines for survival and perpetuation. The Greeks‚ masters of many social advances in their time‚ used their gods as examples to imitate or be wary of interchangeably‚ demonstrating an understanding of the perpetual duality of human

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    Exploring Archetypes in Short Stories Archetypes are recurring symbols‚ characters‚ landscapes‚ or events found in myths and literature across different cultures and eras that help us organize events into categories. There are three main types of archetypes which include situational‚ character‚ and symbolic. All three are easily relatable to. Firstly‚ an example of a unhealable wound in a situational archetype can be found with Mrs. Maloney in “Lamb to the Slaughter.” An example of a scapegoat

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    betweenBartleby‚ the inscrutable character Herman Melville depicted In “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”. and Gandhi is they both reach a certain degree of success through passive resistance. The difference is Bartleby does not end well‚ he died as the consequence of resistance. Nevertheless‚ the dignity‚ individuality and power he shows through occupying space and resistance to submit to his employer is indelible. Bartleby keeps his own free will till the end which is a big step to success

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    individuality and freedom amidst the machinations and clockwork of social constructs. Of all the novels and critical speculations that debate the philosophy of the individual versus society‚ none are more profound and insightful than Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener‚” A fantastic short story depicting the life of a law copyist who simply preferred not to conform to society. Written in the first few years following the civil war‚ within a massive market and industrial revolution‚ Herman Melville

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    Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” “Bartleby‚ The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville is the tale of a young scrivener who rather than be remembered by his boss for his impeccable work and outstanding attitude is not forgotten because of his apathy towards life and the mysterious circumstances that made him act that way. In an essay‚ Graham Thompson‚ says that “the predominant themes in discussions of ‘Bartleby’remain changes in the nature of the workplace in antebellum America and transformations

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    ------------------------------------------------- Bartleby the Scrivener" Summary The narrator of "Bartleby the Scrivener" is the Lawyer‚ who runs a law practice on Wall Street in New York. The Lawyer begins by noting that he is an "elderly man‚" and that his profession has brought him "into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men the law-copyists‚ or scriveners." While the Lawyer knows many interesting stories of such scriveners‚ he bypasses

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    Bartleby’s Isolation and the Wall Introduction: “Bartleby the Scrivener‚ A Story of Wall Street” is a short story by Herman Melville in which the narrator‚ a lawyer who runs a firm on Wall Street‚ tells the story of a rebellious scrivener who worked for him named Bartleby. One day‚ Bartleby simply states “I would prefer not to” when asked to do his normal copying duties as a scrivener (Melville). Soon Bartleby starts sleeping and eating at the office‚ refusing to leave. Eventually the narrator

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    In the beginning of this story‚ Bartleby is a person who needed a job for living. He found a job‚ which is a copy legal document by hand. Previously‚ his boss was a very kind person that always paid him on time and gave him good remuneration. However‚ Bartleby’s personality changed. He became a strange person compared with the first day in the company. One of the important characteristics is when his manager or colleagues asked he to do a favor or finished his job. His response was always “I prefer

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