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Melville Billy Budd
654 wordsJoyce Carol Oates writes that Herman Melville? s novels have artistic difficulty because he uses fiction writing as a preachy parable. Oates believes that Melville? s writing is annoying for the modern reader to interpret because of contemporary expectations that writing be entertaining and less like a heavy sermon. Oates believes a contemporary reader must become educated in the fact that Melville? s characters are depiction of ideas, not characters in a drama, in order to make sense of his wor...
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