Bartleby the scrivener
If you analyzed life so much just to discover that it was meaningless, that you were just a machine, would you,‘shut down,’ turn your self off? In the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, Bartleby does just that. My ideas are very similar to those of Leo B. Levy. He believes that a “spell” was cast over Bartleby, and that he was already dead because of a mental suicide. We have similar ideas about the theme, character, and setting, and how they add to the story’s darkness. My ideas about theme are the same as Levy, that throughout the piece there was a definite murkiness seen through everything, from the building where Bartleby worked to the writing style. An example of this murkiness is The setting played a significant role in the story of Bartleby. The dar
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Approximate Word count = 537
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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