Herman Melville's Moby Dick 
....
Ahab recounts his four decades at sea, declaring "what a forty years' fool fool old fool, has
Ahab been" (
Melville 421).
Ahab's ....
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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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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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Moby Dick Old Man & Sea
.... However, like Santiago,
Ahab is able to retain dignity because even though
Melville is giving us an evil world where only suffering and eternal ignorance exist ....
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The Possessed & Moby Dick
.... whale, in effect, then we can begin to see that Dostoyevsky is saying essentially the same thing about his major characters that
Melville is saying about
Ahab. ....
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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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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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Nature in Walden and Moby Dick
.... Only Ishmael becomes pure enough to be saved from drowning. Perhaps Captain
Ahab should have moved in with Thoreau at Walden Pond.
Melville, Herman. ....
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The Tragic Vision in Art and Literature
.... This is evident in
Melville's greatest work, Moby Dick. In that novel, Captain
Ahab stares into the abyss every day and sees the white whale waiting there for ....
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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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The Abyss inThree American Novels
.... by
Melville is that we face dangers every day, and for
Melville it is .... Many characters fail to escape the abyss, though some--like
Ahab--may be dragged into it ....
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Matthias & The Second Great Awakening
....
Melville in Moby Dick has a chapter with a prophet named Elijah who echoes the Biblical Tishbite by foretelling
Ahab's doom.
Melville ....
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Allegory, Symbolism & Typology in Literature
.... and by doing this he is also the one who turns away from
Ahab's obsession ....
Melville sees human beings as free in the universe but as at the same time buffeted by ....
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Three American Novels
.... and by doing this he is also the one who turns away from
Ahab's obsession ....
Melville sees human beings as free in the universe but as at the same time buffeted by ....
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The Theme of Alienation in Literature
.... In "Bartleby, the Scrivener,"
Melville creates a kind of horrendous monster, though Bartleby achieves .... says that he is in his way as "defiant" as
Ahab in Moby ....
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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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