ENGLISH 2H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: George Orwell, Scientific Management, Ginger Nut

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 2H06
• Professor: Drnabeela

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Characters: bartelby, the lawyer, turkey, nippers, ginger nut. Bartelby would (cid:498)prefer not to(cid:499) do extra on his job-> he just wants to do the. The lawyer is managing his little office and they work like machines (no individuality) (negative/ nightmarish sublime?) He tells them what to do and expects them to follow orders. Melville-> not a romantic writer-> writes as part of a machine, reduction of humanity (gets characters and readers to forget they are reading about people) He wrote moby dick and got a lot of slack from it. They wanted the romantic story (cid:523)hero, admire him, he doesn(cid:495)t die in the end(cid:524) (cid:498))(cid:495)d prefer not to(cid:499)-> melville(cid:495)s thinking of not wanting to write like a machine. His publishers wanted him to write like a machine and write romantically. Bartelby is the first literature exhibit of the office cubicle. Live in little boxes (age, gender, class, ethnicity) and check them off.