Themes in Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Bartleby, The Scrivener is a textual test, in many ways, of the reader's willingness to tread in the narrator's misguided footsteps. Such willingness leads ...

The various themes of 'Bartleby', which is subtitled 'A Story of Wall Street', include alienation, capitalism, and non-conformity in an increasingly ...

In essence, Bartleby disavows notions of revolting against his dehumanizing existence in favor of naively believing that the narrator will provide him with some ...

Bartleby, the Scrivener examines themes such as isolation, passive resistance, and the failure of communication. The story's author, Herman Melville, may ...

Characterized as a symbolic fable of self-isolation and passive resistance to routine, Bartleby, the Scrivener reveals the decremental extinction of a human ...

Reason, logic, and language can only connect people if both parties understand the rules and choose to follow them. Bartleby stares out a viewless window doing ...

Isolation and Imprisonment: Bartleby's tale presents issues with social isolation and imprisonment that are brought on by breakdowns in communication, which ...

Through this story Melville tries to give us a clear understanding of Man's alienated nature and condition in modern society.

Bartleby's quiet, polite, but firm refusal to do even the most routine tasks asked of him has always been the main source of puzzlement. Bartleby has been ...

The story of a Wall Street lawyer who hires a man named Bartleby to work as a new clerk in his practice. Shortly after being hired, Bartleby refuses to do his ...