Above is an image from the promotional material for the 2014 production of Machinal.
Good evening :)
Today we began our discussion of Bartleby, and we will continue on Monday. Take a look at at least one of the following other stories (Fuller’s Our City Charities,” Stowe’s “The Seamstress,” and Fern’s “Blackwell’s Island") so that we can discuss them together. In addition, the stand-alone essay will be due after class.. There will be no annotated bibliography.
Here is the link to the trailer of Machinal that we watched:
This video is of part of an actual performance, but its quality is not the best:
Lately, Machinal is a popular play! I think that it also shed light on Bartleby.
Here are a few more questions for your journals:
--How is your paper coming along? Which one source did you choose? Which theme are you applying? Why?
-- Which other sources are you using? Why did you choose them?
-- Compare and contrast Bartleby and the young woman in Machinal.
-- Why does Bartleby prefer not to? Does the narrator learn why at the end of the story?
-- Discuss Bartleby's narrator. Do you sympathize with him? Why? Why not?
Using Levinson and Erikson's theories, where do you place Bartleby on the scale of development? Why?
-- Is "Bartleby" really a story about nothing? Agree. disagree.
-- What does "Bartleby" add to our understanding of American identity?
== What can it add to American identity? American literature? any other categories? Why? Why not?
-- Bartleby has no female characters. How does that affect your reading of the story?
-- Using the stories I've assigned, how do they shed light on "Bartleby"?
-- What do we learn about what it is like to be poor in 19th century America?
-- What is it like for literature to turn to the city and to the present day? Why?
-- Consider Bartleby's workplace. What is the author trying to do with it?
-- Respond to the ending of the story.
-- How is American literature evolving? How is American identity evolving?
Good night!
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