Bartleby
Society has set a standard in which a person must do something useful to be something good. So, what would the solution be when someone separates from society? Society's answer would either be to try and make that person do something or force that person to leave society permanently. The reason society feels this way is because society is unwilling to see any other view aside from their own, and when that view is challenged the only choice one has is to entirely reject society and be ready to face the consequences. In "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, the narrator has a most unusual incident with an employee he hires as a law copyist. Bartleby started out being a very productive worker, but soon after he decided to quit everything and disconnect himself from the outside world. Through the use of an office setting, dialogue, and symbolism, the author is able to prove that detaching from society is dangerous, not only for that person but also on society. Unvoiced communication jeopardizes interpersonal relations to the degree of devaluing the individual and dehumanizing relationships. The Wall Street office setting places Bartleby in a picture perfect environment where he can shut himself out of society. In the openi
"His dinner is ready. Won't he dine today either? Or does he live without dining?" "Lives without dining," said I, and closed the eyes (908). Continuous symbolic notation of dead walls...creates a dark entity which makes itself felt as a sinister, engulfing, deathlike force. Wall Street is a place, but it is also people, and we come here to one phase of "coalescence." The place is permeated by particular facets of human character, which it expresses: acquisitiveness, selfish hedonism, callous exploitation of the weak, ruthless suppression of nonconformity (352). ng scene, the narrator hires Bartleby as a scrivener and makes him a workplace in the office.
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Approximate Word count = 1380
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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