Dead letter office

in the 1600’s and takes place in Salem, a town located in the northeastern side of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that was established by the Puritan settlers. Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville, is set in New York in 1853 in a law office staffed with peculiar men. Both stories have some prejudice aspects. The definition of prejudice is “preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience” (“Prejudice”). In Young Goodman brown the issues of prejudice center around

understand the motivations of Bartleby. Then, when the narrator discovers Bartleby has been living in his office the whole time, the sheer strangeness of Bartleby is obvious, but no evidence at all has been presented to begin to explain any of his actions. Finally, in the conclusion, after Bartleby has died, the narrator reveals his theory, that Bartleby had worked as a sorter in the dead letter office in the months prior to his employment by the narrator. This epiphany is relieving, though it is not conclusive

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne narrates a Romantic story of a young woman in the Puritan Era who is convicted of adultery and has to face being a social outcast. Herman Melville examines the story of Bartleby, a copyist who mysteriously refuses to work and is, therefore, put in jail. In The Scarlet Letter and Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street, Hawthorne and Melville use the characterization of Hester Prynne and Bartleby and their independent behavior to critique the effect

Holmes decides to convince Pitezel to take out a very large life insurance policy to scam an insurance company by staging Pitezel’s death and substituting another corpse in his place, which he assured Pitezel he would had no trouble getting ahold of. In all reality, this was Holmes’ way of getting out of the predicament he had put himself in by trusting someone too much. In November of 1893, Holmes and Pitezel leave Chicago to travel across the country and commit frauds along the way. In July of

learn of his previous job at the Dead Letter Office. On three occasions Melville notes the dead brick wall that Bartleby looks out at, “that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall”, “the next day I noticed the Bartleby did nothing ut stand at his window in his dead-wall revery”, and “Bartleby remained standing at his window in one of his profoundest dead-wall reveries”. The mention of the dead wall and Bartleby’s screen can be

kept reading. The noises kept getting louder and louder, than she heard a knock on the door and jumped from being startled. She peeped through the window to see who was at her door, but to her surprise no one was there, just a letter and it was from her friend Doris and the letter read, “Hey Miss Muffet, I didn't know if you were home or not but I'll stop by later and give you your present.” “Hey Doris, I would love for you to stop by later! I'll be home all afternoon so whenever is fine.” She

is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because, he gave the Juliet the potion that made it seem look like she was dead. This caused Rome to become concerned so he went to the capulet tomb, when Romeo reached the tomb he saw that Juliet was “dead” Romeo decided that he was going to kill himself. At this point in the story Romeo sees that even though Juliet is dead she still looks she has life to her. “...Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is

both works, “Bartleby the Scrivener” and The Scarlet Letter, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne show the unbridgeable gap between human desires and human possibilities and the mixture of good and evil in even the loftiest of human motives. In “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, this idea is shown by how the Lawyer keeps Bartleby as one of his employers, even though Bartleby does not deserve to still be working. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this idea is shown through

Jewish, and Italian gangs. Each gang had their own style. For example: there was the Dead Rabbits gang. They were known for attacking regular civilians in broad daylight. They got their name by the unforgettable dead rabbits they carried on sticks while beating people up. There was also the Italian Mafia. They were recognized by the "Black Hand." The "Black Hand" was a letter with a black hand print on it. The letter would simply ask for money. Every Italian knew that if you refused to pay, it would

of what soured his friendly relations with the Taino Indians.) Answer: Some of the disasters that Columbus suffered started when he returned to the island he had named Hispaniola to discover that all of the Spanish settlers he had left behind were dead. Columbus attempted to enslave them and