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[인문학] Melville의 소설 Bartleby, the Scrivener(1853) 작품 연구(영문)에 대한 자료입니다.
목차
1.Herman Melville
2.Summary
3.Social and historical Background
4.Implication of the setting
5.Characters in Capitalism
6.The Harmful Effects of Capitalism
7.Significance of Dead Letter
8.I would prefer not to
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Herman Melville
Born in 1819. 8. 1 in New York city
Died in 1891. 9. 28
Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Family’s bankrupt and father’s death → had to work a lot
South seas adventure
Tragic insight of human and life, symbolism
“Typee”(1846), “Moby Dick”(1851)
Summary
The narrator is a lawyer working in Wall Street. He hires Bartleby, the Scrivener and problem begins. Bartleby refuses to do what the narrator want him to do and reject to communicate. Bartleby’s inhumanity makes the narrator upset, and finally Bartleby is abandoned. Abandoned Bartleby is sent to the prison and dies.