The_Paradise_Of_Bachelors_And_The_Tartarus_Of_Maids

The Paradise Of Bachelors And The Tartarus Of Maids “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” Herman Melville’s, “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” sheds light on the societal changes that go along with industrialization. It allows us a glimpse of the price that is paid for privilege. Melville writes on the reality of human greed and on subsequent separation of the classes. Herman Melville describes the reality of privilege and the great cost that is paid to attain it. He describes how industrialization changes society and creates a separation between the two classes. The privilege of the upper class in this story is in a sense far removed from the reality of what it took to attain it. They fail to see that the privilege they enjoy has been paid through the sacrifice of the working class. Melville describes this “paradise” as “sweat off another man’s back.” The bachelors take no consideration for the maids that work unceasingly to produce the privilege they enjoy. maids, privilege, class, paradise, describes, upper, melville, bachelors, tartarus, reality, paid, enjoy, classes, working, separation, removed, lives, industrialization, herman, greed, far, exist, conditions, changes, between, attain, writes, work, without, wedge, unequal, unceasingly, type, two, took