In The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, Herman Melville sought to highlight the irony of life from real life experience as one group of people lived off another without giving a care. There is a group of isolated men who are bachelors and lawyers who only indulge in entertaining one another with food, drink and, also accompanying one another at the ‘temple.’ On the other hand is a group of maids with eyes filled with misery because of being overworked at the mill. Several authors have given this article a different view and understanding that perhaps Continue reading...
