Herman Melville Defined

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The result was his first two well-known novels: Typee and Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children.
During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested in writing about “passion, innocence, religion, philosophy, and political subjects,” and refused to write, as he put it, “the other way” (13). The public disliked these subjects and his new style, compared to previous works. Due to the lack of money for his family, Melville was forced to return to his adventurous style of writing. He wrote Redburn, a tale about his experiences aboard the ship United States during his service with the U.S. Navy. Although the public was grateful Melville returned to a more realistic style, he was very unhappy. He wrote to his father-in-law, “no reputation that is gratifying to me, can possibly be achieved by this book. This is a job, which I have done for money-being forced to ...

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