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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is my favorite of Melville’s works. I see a bit of myself in both the narrator and Bartleby himself—fretfully exhausting myself when communicating with unresponsive people while willfully wanting to be left to my own devices in almost all circumstances.
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity; then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.”
3,5/5
Honnêtement, je ne pensais apprécier cette nouvelle mais ça a été le cas !
L'histoire se lit bien, la plume est agréable à suivre et le personnage de Bartleby est assez intriguant.
Honnêtement, je ne pensais apprécier cette nouvelle mais ça a été le cas !
L'histoire se lit bien, la plume est agréable à suivre et le personnage de Bartleby est assez intriguant.
Ein Mensch, der sich allem entzieht. Stück für Stück.
Und dann diese ewiglichen Mauern, dunkelrot, die B. beschaut und beschaut und man Seite für Seite auf Erkenntnis, auf Erlösung, auf etwas -irgendetwas!- hofft, das er mit einem teilen wird, ja, teilen muss.
Dann, während man ihn begleitet, gelangt man selbst unweigerlich an diese Backsteinmauer, die dicker zu werden scheint, je tiefer man in die Geschichte eintaucht.
B., abseits der Gesellschaft, schält sich aus den Häuten des Lebens - lebt er oder ist er oder??
Und dann diese ewiglichen Mauern, dunkelrot, die B. beschaut und beschaut und man Seite für Seite auf Erkenntnis, auf Erlösung, auf etwas -irgendetwas!- hofft, das er mit einem teilen wird, ja, teilen muss.
Dann, während man ihn begleitet, gelangt man selbst unweigerlich an diese Backsteinmauer, die dicker zu werden scheint, je tiefer man in die Geschichte eintaucht.
B., abseits der Gesellschaft, schält sich aus den Häuten des Lebens - lebt er oder ist er oder??
3.75
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
“What miserable friendlessness and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible!”
“The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy!”
“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem misery there is none.”
“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain…His body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.”
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
“What miserable friendlessness and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible!”
“The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy!”
“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem misery there is none.”
“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain…His body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.”
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Read for literary theory class. You hate your job so you enter a nearly-catatonic state and starve to death in a mental hospital? Yeah get in line buddy