bartlebythescrivenertheme

2023年11月17日 — The act of living is the real death. Living is a tiring and arduous process, full of numbing compromises and submission to meaningless tasks.

In this reading, Bartleby's resistance to his “superiors” is a heroic rebellion against society's current structure. His lack of desire for food may be the most ...

Isolation is the main theme of the story, as Bartleby chooses to isolate himself from his coworkers and employer. He decides to leave work aside and do nothing.

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

The theme in Bartleby the Scrivener revolves around three main developments: Bartleby's existentialistic point of view, the lawyer's portrayal of egotism and ...

Always polite, never aggressive, Bartleby says “I would prefer not to” to an ever-increasing range of things as the story progresses. In short, Bartleby's story ...

Isolation and the Unreliability of Language. From its very first sentence, Melville signals to the reader that Bartleby, the Scrivener is a story in which ...