Sunday, February 10, 2013
Bartleby Essay
This week I have been working on my essay "Bartleby, Fact or Fiction." I decided to go with Thesis Statement #2, which states that the character Bartleby is actually an imaginary character in the narrator's mind. I was able to expand on this with many different points on how people use different ways to deal with inner turmoil and how people justify what they don't understand and what they don't want to face in their lives. I even played with the idea that maybe it wasn't Bartleby that was lock up in the end but the narrator himself to help him deal with what Bartleby represents. While this essay has been challenging, it has also been fun at the same time.
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This thesis statement is very interesting to me. What is your opinion about what Bartleby represents? Would you say the narrator has a mental disorder? Or is Bartleby just symbolic? I didn't choose this thesis because I wasn't sure what evidence from the text I would be able to find. Did you have trouble finding supporting evidence? I'm sure your essay is intriguing.
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