Essays Tagged: "Herman Melville"

Bartleby The Scrivener and Herman Melville's life Good

not rare, sometimes it is even common, that an author speaks about his or her self in their works. Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' is often considered such a story. Many of the characters ...

(2 pages) 166 2 3.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville's response to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two of the most influential authors in American Literatu ... roy thee. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me...Who's over me?' (Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Norton, New York, 1952, p.412) Due to Ahab's unwillingness to accept hum ... never came to as full an understanding of the meaning in suffering as he did in the final conflict.Herman Melville created Moby-Dick as a response to the work of Hawthorne. Hawthorne uncovered the im ...

(5 pages) 99 1 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"Billy Budd" by Herman Melville. Captain Vere as a "tragic hero" in the story.

In the novella _Billy Budd_ by Herman Melville, Captain Vere is the "tragic hero". he is neither good nor evil, but rather a man wh ...

(2 pages) 59 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Hawthorne - Melville Comparitive Essay

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville are similar because they both have pessimistic views of humanity. Billy Budd is a st ... ly Budd are similar because they both have negative views about humanity. The author of Billy Budd, Herman Melville, is more pessimistic than Nathaniel Hawthorne though. Through reading and analyzing ...

(5 pages) 93 0 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville

Herman melville was smart, wise, highlyopinionated, couragous, and a good influence.Timeline1819 Aug ... Oct. 22 StanwixMelville is born.1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper madea headline 'herman melville crazy'.1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.1855 March 2: Frances Melville is born. Publi ... acket,Redburn, Israel Potter, and Billy Budd.5) Contribited to the American Renaissance.SignificanceHerman Melville made a lot of novels andis an example on how great a person canbecome. His message w ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nathaniel Hawthorne's ideas and views

enry David Thoreau. He also taught the only other Anti-Transcendentalist writerof his period -- Herman Melville. His most popular book, The Scarlet Letter, earnedHawthorne international fame. ...

(3 pages) 162 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Physical attributes and atmosphere of Galapagos Islands. Speaks of Mellville and Darwin

During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Melville and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. B ... the same. Charles Darwin, best known for the theory of evolution, wrote for the purpose of science; Herman Mellville, best known for Moby Dick, for the purpose of entertainment. The audience intended, ...

(4 pages) 39 0 4.3 Sep/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Herman Melville

Herman MelvilleAmerican novelist, short story writer, and poet.BIOGRAPHYHerman Melville was born in ... -Jacket (1850). The two works regained some of his popularity (324).According to SoftKey Multimedia Herman Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1850), where he became intimate frie ... Sailors (1888), Timoleon (1891), and Weeds and Wildings, with a Rose or Two (1924) (Herzberg 727). Herman Melville died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891 in New York, New York, but before he di ...

(5 pages) 133 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Properly Acknowledged

d many other writers of that time. 'His influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost.'. No doubt, Ralph Wal ...

(4 pages) 107 0 3.7 Apr/1993

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Herman Melville, a biography and analysis

Throughout American history, very few authors have earned the right to be called "great."Herman Melville is one of these few. His novels and poems have been enjoyed world wide forover a cen ... ttle of tea drained out of Major Melvill's clothes after the Tea Party as amomento of this occasion.Herman attended the New York Male High School from about the age of seven until 1830. Bythat time, A ... York fur company back in Albany. The family moved there in the autumn of 1830, andduring that time Herman attended, along with his brothers Gansevoort and Allan, the AlbanyAcademy. Just as luck seeme ...

(10 pages) 87 0 1.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Comparison between Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville. They Focused their writings on how man was affected by nature. They translated their philosophies though both the portrayal of their protago

Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville focused their writings on how man was affected by nature. They translated their phil ... ng individuals to reach the highest levels of achievement synergistically with nature.In Moby Dick, Herman Melville illustrates man's quest to attain the supreme power of God through the monomaniacal ...

(7 pages) 110 0 3.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Melville

w no fame. How many remarkable artist have lived and died never receiving duecredit for their work. Herman Melville is clearly an artist of words. Herman Melville iscertainly a prodigy when it comes t ... He wrote about his own experiences.The one thing that he loved, and knew the most about was whaling.Herman Melville was born in 1819, the son of Allan and Maria Melville. He wasone of a Family of eigh ...

(9 pages) 56 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The novel Billy Budd being compared to biblical terms.

Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a tragic tale of men at sea. Billy Budd is a innocent man aboard the Indomitable ...

(1 pages) 61 1 3.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville

Herman MelvilleIn 1850 while writing The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne's publisher introduced ... s, Hawthorne's publisher introduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This was Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good friends at once, for despite ... ant of distinguished lineage. His father, however, lost all his money and died when the boy was 12. Herman left school at 15, worked briefly as a bank clerk, and in 1837 went to sea. For 18 months, in ...

(2 pages) 60 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Symbolism and Foreshadowing in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

an beings have free will or free choice and if not who or what shapes human destiny?" (McSweeney 9) Herman Melville utilizes Father Mapple's sermon in his nineteenth century epic novel Moby Dick, to i ...

(7 pages) 88 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.

In Herman Melville's work entitled Bartleby the Scrivener, the narrator is an elderly lawyer who works ...

(1 pages) 123 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Transcend-Symbolists: A Joining of Two Philosophies

e purest place one could go. The Symbolists, which included such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, on the other hand, were pessimistic, and tended to reject all of the ideas of the T ...

(5 pages) 53 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Examine the theme of institutional conscience versus private conscience in Billy Budd.

s institutional conscience, or manmade laws to uphold order and justice. In the novella Billy Budd, Herman Melville presented a dilemma of private conscience and institutional conscience through the e ... onal conscience because the latter is as omnipresent as civilization itself. Based on this concept, Herman Melville masterfully pinpointed the conflict brought by civilization through the creation of ...

(3 pages) 56 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Term Paper over the Short Story Billy Budd, his life, why he wrote the book, and religious symbolism.

BILLY BUDD, SAILORBY HERMAN MELVILLEIn December 1885, Herman Melville finally retired from his job at the New York Custom ...

(24 pages) 220 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville's classic novel,"Moby Dick".

fe can be exceptionally different according to his acceptance of morals. Taking place in the 1800s, Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick, introduced this contrast through the characters Ahab and ... larly killed at sea but he left the world with no assurance whatsoever and in a state of confusion. Herman Melville created these characters for his novel. He may have used the general similarities of ...

(5 pages) 68 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature