Moby Dick:Herman Melville questions, and analyzes, the connections between Melville, Ahab, and modern religion
Moby-Dick: Free Response Essay
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Moby Dick is a novel of adventure, philosophical inquiry, and critique of society. The story, essentially, is the story of the crazy Captain Ahab and his quest to defeat the sperm whale, Moby Dick. In chapters twenty-eight through …
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…God-figures, and he would be the God of the Pequod (a lost tribe, which could be another message Melville was expressing through this novel), then Melville would be saying that the composite God-figure is a paranoid, hurbus-nemesis archetype! This is actually very comparable to Yahweh, for was it not a paranoid mind that scripted in the Bible that those who followed other belief systems would burn in Hell for eternity for disobeying the Almighty God? ...
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