American Literature
a "good" response, being that Bartleby is causing harm to the man and his business? This sort of dilemma which Melville paints does an excellent
job of capturing good and evil. Melville shows that there can be many cases where you simply cannot do the "right" thing. Therefore, whatever you
do is not the "wrong" thing either. By addressing good and evil this way, Melville teaches the tough lesson that the world isn't black and white, even
though it's easier to think it is.
The cetology of MobyDick is the zoological classification and study of the properties of whales (i.e. cetology) introduced by United States author
Herman Melville in his 1851 novel MobyDick. Although the novel is a work of fiction, Melville included sequences of chapters concerned largely with
an objective discussion of the properties of whales. The observations, voiced through the narrator Ishmael, were largely drawn from Melville's own
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