Research Paper On Bartleby The Scrivener

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Bartleby, the Scrivener brings to light the outcome of a social outcast in a conformist society. One man’s attempt of individuality in a world of conformity ended in a tragic demise. Normally, a home would not be thought to take form as an office or a prison; however, it is the person who takes up the residence that makes the home. A home is often associated as homely and comfortable, but a prison is none of that. In the bleak prison, Bartleby attempts to defy societal expectations, but in the end led to his death. The prison beseeches the sentimentality of the inevitable doom for the nonconformist outcast. Death becomes a spiritual gloom spreading through the daunting prison.

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