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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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's Moby Dick
.... journey halfway around the world. The tragic figure of
Captain Ahab looms over the narrative. Heroism also abounds, as the crew ....
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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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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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The Tragic Vision in Art and Literature
.... 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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The Abyss inThree American Novels
.... freedom or across the seas.
Captain Ahab is clearly on a spiritual journey related to the loss of his leg. His freedom has been taken ....
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Moby Dick Old Man & Sea
.... neither can they conquer him. In Melville's Moby-Dick, we also see
Captain Ahab fail in his conquest.
Ahab is more proud and willful ....
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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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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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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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Billy Budd
.... a novel titled Moby-Dick can be about
Ahab though it is written in the first-person by Ishmael. Billy Budd is about its title character, yet
Captain Vere is ....
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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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