The Possessed & Moby Dick 
.... The lesson which
Ahab refuses to learn is the lesson that he is not God, that his only real freedom is surrendering to God that drive to vengeance so that he ....
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Moby Dick
This research examines the dreaded fate of the Pequod, Captain
Ahab's vessel in Moby-Dick, as a foregone conclusion, based on Melville's liberal use of ....
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Moby Dick Old Man & Sea
.... However, Santiago gains a measure of peace and understanding about existence from his struggles, while
Ahab leaves the world as he found it without any greater ....
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Herman Melville's Moby Dick
.... world. The tragic figure of Captain
Ahab looms over the narrative. Heroism .... Melville 145). The crew welcomes
Ahab's mission all except Starbuck. ....
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The Abyss inThree American Novels
.... on those who transgress.
Ahab stares into the abyss every day and sees the white whale waiting there for him. Other characters in ....
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Nature in Walden and Moby Dick
.... is a metaphysical energy that provides the great sperm whale with awesome attributes, or so it seems to Ishmael--and even more so to Captain
Ahab, who sees ....
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Three American Novels
.... In Moby Dick, the physical journey that takes place in search of whales becomes a spiritual journey on the part of Captain
Ahab as he searches for the white ....
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Herman Melville
.... The real "obsessive" behavior, however, is that associated with Captain
Ahab, who is presented by Melville as somewhat of an enigma until about one-quarter of ....
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Frederick Douglass
.... Convention, and then discuss Douglass's analysis in that context as well as with reference to the fictional character of Captain
Ahab in Melville's novel Moby ....
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Jezebel as an Archetype
.... He asserts that the marriage of Jezebel and
Ahab was instigated by Omri in order to "strengthen relations between Israel and Phoenicia," since Jezebel was the ....
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The Tragic Vision in Art and Literature
.... Moby Dick. In that novel, Captain
Ahab stares into the abyss every day and sees the white whale waiting there for him. Other characters ....
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Youth by Joseph Conrad
.... It is impossible for the reader of "Youth" who is at all familiar with Moby Dick not to see in Beard a counterpart, in some sense, of Captain
Ahab. ....
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Allegory, Symbolism & Typology in Literature
.... In Moby Dick, the physical journey that takes place in search of whales becomes a spiritual journey on the part of Captain
Ahab as he searches for the white ....
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Major beliefs of Judaism
.... southern Palestine) over the course of several hundred years; both kingdoms are dealt with in the Kings books (Snaith 7). The reign of King
Ahab, husband of ....
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Herman Melville
.... has said that Melville was "an advocate of cultural and religious tolerance," and this theme is expounded upon in her 1999 book "
Ahab's Wife" (William Morrow ....
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Judaism and Islam
.... Jezebel, a Gentile, is of and from the culture of polytheism, and when here husband, King
Ahab of Israel, permits idol worship, he is challenged by the prophet ....
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Billy Budd
.... In Moby-Dick, "Not
Ahab but Melville himself, as Ishmael, is the hero: for in him the spirit of man survives and has the last word" (Kronen-berger 516-517). ....
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Matthias & The Second Great Awakening
.... Melville. Melville in Moby Dick has a chapter with a prophet named Elijah who echoes the Biblical Tishbite by foretelling
Ahab's doom. ....
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The Theme of Alienation in Literature
.... aggressive behavior. Howard (32) cites Bartleby's passivity but says that he is in his way as "defiant" as
Ahab in Moby-Dick. Bartleby ....
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Beckett's Endgame Samuel Bec
.... This recalls Melville writing about
Ahab's endless quest for the whale Moby-Dick, when the author himself had attained his quest by writing the book. ....
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Gideon and the Altar of Baal
.... Fensham, FC "The Numeral Seventy in the Old Testament and the Family of Jerubbaal,
Ahab, Panammuwa, and Athirat." PEQ 109 (1977): np Quoted in Walter A. Maier ....
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Maxine Hong Kingston's Novels
.... Is Huckleberry Finn "real?" Is Captain
Ahab "real?" The critic misses the point: Wittman Ah Sing is "unreal" only insofar as he is "bigger than life," bigger ....
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