Is Herman Melville’s character Bartleby’s constant statement of “I’d rather not” an act of freedom or passive submission?
In Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener, Bartleby’s insistently repeated phrase “I would prefer not to” has a multi-layered meaning, both philosophically and literaryly. This sentence points to a tension area that oscillates between freedom and passive submission, and invites a deep questioning of the existential situation of the modern individual.
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