HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Carl Jung, Leo Marx, Nippers
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Lecture 28: melville: brief biography of herman melville (1819-1891), born in nyc. Son of a businessman, but failed- sold a lot of things. Didn;t adapt to interconnected businesses, used to one-on-one trading: no money, moved to albany to live in his mom"s house. Bartleby to be this, to do that- makes judgement that bartleby should work hard cheerfully: the narrator is unreliable- saying he"s prudent. Not really w/ the way he describes turkey and nippers. Both are incompetent, work for one yet he keeps them. Not facing his problems, avoid and skip his problems like moving office: relevant today as how far are we supposed to help others. If not and keeps him, he doesn"t work: sympathy/empathy are feelings reinforced by society. Morals and economic factors caused the narrator to become who he is: though the narrator helps bartleby, how can he help others who bartleby represents. Took advantage and bought a bunch of estates in ny during a panic.
