This notion of a ‘perfect’ mother is obviously not attainable for 99.99% of women. Let us look at our own lives. Do you know any figure in your own life who would meet this standard of a ‘perfect’ mother? If so, I would like to hear about her. Or do you have a personal notion of what constitutes a ‘perfect’ mother? You are more than welcome to write about your own mother and how she makes a ‘perfect’ mother for you. You can write about some other significant mother figure in your life. Does she meet the standard for being a ‘perfect’ mother?
Before I start to talk about my perception of gender I need to talk more about my cultural background. As Korean I used to born and raised in Korea till I was in middle school. Korea has different cultural background then U.S. They have different thought, language, food and life style. From very long times, Korea had strong Confucianism as a background culture. Especially patriarchy and preferences of boys are common idea of culture till my parent’s generation. It is culture that all the family members have to obey the father. Of course as the time goes by it became gradually changed because of the effect of internet
Melville’s symbolism of BartlebyThis story is about a lawyer who narrates the whole story. Every situation from this story is what narrator experience. Also, there is a character name Bartleby however, everything about Bartleby is narrating by narrator’s point of view. The story is all about how narrator thinks about Bartleby. It shows that Bartleby is more like unreal character here. Author Melville wants to use Bartleby as symbolism of depression. Melville shows how depression can impact human life through Bartleby. Conflicts between narrator and Bartleby very well symbolize the struggle between internal weakness, such as depression or laziness, and human. Melville’s symbolism about internal weakness of human is conspicuous from the appearance of Bartleby, characteristics of Bartleby, and the narrator’s feeling toward Bartleby. In this story Narrator is stand for individuality and Bartleby is stand for sensibility. “he remains always somewhere between the material and the immaterial.place. At this point narrator never guesses what will happen to him and how Bartleby will change. Narrator does not know where he came from, or what is he like. It is just like, when the depression comes to people, they never know.glad to have among my corps of copyists a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey and the fiery one of Nippers. (Melville 1037)Like the narrator, people believe his or hers little change of emotion can settle down his or hers from busy life. They just trust and let those feeling comes too easily. People keep idleness at the side of their life and believe everything will be fine. Like narrator believes, “And thus, a manner privacy and society were conjoined.” (Melville 1037).At first no one think Bartleby as strange person. But, narrator starts to notices that something is wrong when Bartleby starts to say ‘I prefer not to’. Bartleby’s ‘I prefer not to’ sentence clearly implies the chato lose control.It is not seldom the case that when a man is browbeaten in some unprecedented and violently unreasonable way he begins to stagger in his own plainest faith. HE begins, as it were, vaguely to surmise that wonderful as it may be, all the justice and all the reason is on the other side. (Melville 1039)Bartleby’s action ‘I prefer not to’ makes narrator became uncomfortable. It never happened before in his life time. He does not know how to react to Bartleby. Laziness which is in side of human mind will always say ‘I prefer not to’. When someone say ‘I prefer not to’ and that is because that person have laziness. But like the narrator, people, especially it never happen before, not easily gets rid of laziness. Melville makes Bartleby evade his responsibility to express his symbolism well. Laziness occurs when people evade their responsibility. Also, Bartleby love to stay at one place and that is another characteristic of laziness. From the story there are few world ‘dead’ arby. Even though Bartleby did not try to make him fear physically but narrator emotionally had some stress from Bartleby and it leads him to have some fear. Depression makes people fear. People want to get rid of it because depression is not useful at all. It will never disappear itself he or she have to get away from it. Sometimes it gives fear to people. In the story Melville really specifically describe that fear. “Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.” (Melville 1045) Here, narrator is saying that fear comes because of Bartleby. Just like physiological illness Bartleby grow bigger and bigger from narrator’s mind with fear. Narrator spends his time to think about Bartleby. However, the only one way to get away from Bartleby was leave Bartleby. The only way to escape from depression is he or she have to run away from it. Readers will know that narrator will lose some people around him when he is with Bartleby. Nare. Also, in the story Bartleby describes as ghost and it make a really good connection to depression.“I believe that the character of Bartleby is a psychological double for the story's nameless lawyer-narrator” (Marcus) Like he says, Melville does really dramatic job on symbolizing human psychological illness. At the end Bartleby died but narrator says he did not dead he just sleeps. He says that because psychological illness will not vanish forever. Narrator has disorder life because of Bartleby. This story seems little intricacy but, it will become much interesting with the mind set of Bartleby as symbolism. Melville uses symbolism to make the story stronger. Especially his idea of psychological illness as Bartleby well combined and lead readers fall in to the story. Story’s content, gives readers impression, is how author well uses his character to express author’s intention. In order to do that Bartleby is uses to become symbolism of psychological illness.Reed, Naomi C. "The SpecteGES4
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