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In an informal essay of about 750-1,000 words, please discuss some of the formal choices Melville made in “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.” Note that this question is not so much about the stories Melville is telling but about the way in which he tells them, which is to say, it’s a question about literary technique and form.
You might start by comparing and contrasting the two narrators — one a Wall Street lawyer, the other a businessman who sells seeds. You might then discuss some of the consequences of Melville’s choice to use first-person narrators — that is, why not tell the stories using omniscient third-person or some other form? What difference does it make? What is gained or lost by narrating the stories as he has? How does the narrative point of view color our perceptions of the two stories’ workers?
As you proceed, please keep in mind that both stories presumably would have greatly interested Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. “Paradise” is at least ostensibly about oppressed factory workers, while “Bartleby,” as its subtitle has it, is “A Tale of Wall-street” and dwells on the relations between a boss and his recalcitrant employee. That is to say, like Marx and Engels, Melville is responding to some of the realities of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism.
