literature featuring careers

can you name the career/profession that plays a significant role in these literary works?
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title
type
author
year
career
Othello
play
William Shakespeare
1603
general
Candide
novel
Voltaire
1759
professor
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1798
mariner
Frankenstein
novel
Mary Shelley
1818
scientist
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
short story
Edgar Allan Poe
1841
detective
Jane Eyre
novel
Charlotte Brontë
1847
governess
Moby-Dick
novel
Herman Melville
1851
whaler
Madame Bovary
novel
Gustave Flaubert
1856
doctor
Far from the Madding Crowd
novel
Thomas Hardy
1874
farmer, shepherd
The Metamorphosis
novella
Franz Kafka
1915
salesman
The Old Man and the Sea
novella
Ernest Hemingway
1952
fisherman
Fahrenheit 451
novel
Ray Bradbury
1953
fireman
To Kill a Mockingbird
novel
Harper Lee
1960
attorney
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
novel
Muriel Spark
1961
teacher
The Name of the Rose
novel
Umberto Eco
1980
monk
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