“Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Melville and “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne
This essay must not use outside or secondary sources of any kind. It is to be your own analysis, supported by material from the assigned poems only. Do not use any form of internet search or internet material in any way for this assignment.
This essay must adhere to the 500-800-word range for essay content (does not include heading, header, title, or Works Cited page).
In both “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Melville and “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne, the title characters withdraw from life. Consider this as you read each story, and write a literary analysis essay answering the following three prompts:
1.What similarities and differences do you find in Bartleby’s and Young Goodman Brown’s withdrawal from society in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.
2.What similarities and differences do you find in the consequences of these two characters’ withdrawal in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.
3.What point are they each trying to make with their story? (What does each author seem to be telling readers through their stories?) And how does the character’s withdrawal from society convey the author’s idea/s? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.
