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This 4 page paper offers a formalist interpretation of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener. Characterization, symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing discussed. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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into the direction that ones personal demons can take, as well as the effect that modern society has on ones soul. When one reads Bartleby the Scrivener, one is
immediately caught up in the setting of the place. In an almost Dickens-like place, one first views Bartleby as he is hired by a lawyer to copy legal documents. Bartlebys
appearance offers foreshadowing into that which is about to take place. Bartleby is described as "neat, forlorn, pale and unemotional". Something has obviously happened to rob him of his love
of life. The lawyer, from whose prospective the reader views the story, is baffled as to what could have caused such a deep depression in someone. It becomes apparent that
the lawyer and Bartleby are meant to be juxtaposed against one another. For example, the lawyer is representative, the student could state, of all things materialistic. The lawyer is full
of optimism and believes in his own abilities, sometimes above that of his fellow man. This is evidenced when he states early on: "All who know me consider me an
eminently safe man" (Melville 131). Bartleby, on the other hand, is deeply spiritual, nearly metaphysical in his approach to life. Both characters, at the end of the story, manage
to isolate themselves in worlds of their own construction. The characters of Bartleby and the lawyer both possess their own brand of humanity. However, Bartleby is so different from the
lawyer that he becomes the lawyers favorite obsession. His work with his other scriveners have fallen into a norm and when Bartleby does not fit into the mold of accepted
behavior, he is at a loss as to how to deal with him. This is perhaps why he does not fire Bartleby for his insolence and inability to complete his
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