Bartleby And Civil Disobedienc

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the Post Office, won’t you? And see if there is anything for me” (Melville 116). The boss, who is also the narrator, never requests Bartleby to perform any difficult chores. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s interpretation of an unjust law is, “a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself” (Jacobus 159). The injustice described here by King also does not match the characterization of Bartleby’s boss. Bartleby needs no civil disobedience since nothing could be considered unjust in the boss’s management.
Even if an unjust act were placed against Bartleby, he would not have had any cares about the injustice. He was a man who needed a place to live and chose to be a law-copyist. He has no desire to do any work and no desire to interact with other humans. Anytime an order was given, the same response would reply from Bartleby’s mouth: “I would prefer not to” (Melville). Bartleby did not weigh the issues of ...

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