Moby Dick
HERMAN MELVILLE
- Delhi Rohan Book Company 1996
- 222 p 13 cm
follows Ishmael, a sailor who signs onto the Pequod, a whaling ship commanded by the obsessed Captain Ahab. Ahab is hellbent on revenge against Moby Dick, a massive white whale that previously severed his leg. The voyage turns into a doomed, obsessive quest that destroys the ship and crew, with only Ishmael surviving.
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Moby Dick as the embodiment of all malicious evil, the whale primarily acts according to natural instinct, serving as a symbolic force of nature and fate. obsessive revenge, the limits of human power against nature, and the destructive nature of unbridled hubris.