Thesis Questions – Brian Baigorria

Within Herman Melville’s text, Bartleby the Scrivener, we see Bartleby through the narrators eye’s go through different phases as the story progresses. Could these phases relate to the five stages of grief?
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, gives us as insight as to what Sisyphus must be feeling as he goes through his struggle knowing that it will get him nowhere, however Camus proposes that once Sisyphus’s acknowledges that his struggle will never end, the power it has over him ceases to exist. Compare this to Herman Melville’s text, Bartleby the Scrivener, do you think that Bartleby could be compared to Sisyphus as he acknowledged the mundane, repetitive, pointless lives we as human beings have in our lives?

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