The sea plays a large role in Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s main antagonist is the great white whale, but one could argue that the sea is also the antagonist, in part. In fact, the sea is all encompassing, according to Melville, and the narrator Ishmael. The sea is home to Moby Dick as ...
Berkshire County is nestled along the western edge of Massachusetts and borders Vermont, New York and Connecticut. Centered in Berkshire County are the beautiful Berkshire Hills. The area has long been a summer refuge of the wealthy from New York City and Boston and has boasted many famous residents, from Herman Melville to former New ...
Herman Melville is often praised as the greatest American novelist, although reading “Benito Cereno” the reader can discern a considerable critique of the society that embraces him. It is interesting to see such a critique come in a sometimes very subtle form. Captain Amasa Delano, who comes from Massachusetts, is our only American character in ...
Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville, is representative of the political and economic climate of the period of time in which it was written. During the mid 19th century, money was becoming more prevalent than it had ever been before. Bartleby the Scrivener is a story about a Wall Street lawyer and a copyist he ...
In his essay, David Richter exposes to his reader that a deep controversy exists in the analysis of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. In fact, there are many supposed articles that recognize this schism in opinion on the nature of Melville’s tale-what it was supposed to mean for us, the readers. Richter presents the controversy ...