-本周主打作者Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of novels, short stories and poetry. His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; the slave ship narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and Billy Budd, Sailor, left unfinished at his death and published in 1924.

- "Bartleby the Scrivener"

 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.

-Moby-Dick

多面相小說: sex, religious, environment, politic

Mother nature母大地的力量

人和自然的爭鬥是有極限的

-Bible

1.Janah
à小木偶故事的原型

2. AhabßàGod

-Hubris

 傲慢,驕傲

-Icarus

翅膀飛太高被太陽融化

à人定勝天的觀念V.S. 人是有極限的

-Ishmael found the true inner self and broke through the traditional impression

-Starbuck 的名字起源

-Authorà 令人思考如何對抗專制的統治

-What does whale to those people…

Captainàevil

Ishmaelàwonder of the universe

Starbuckàoil

-Shunghai (v.)

上海當動詞有拐騙利用的意思

-Piquad(boat)à represents the small domestic government

-White: nothingness, fear

-tall tell= bizarre story

-inferno 地獄之火