Comparing Captain Ahab In The Scarlet Letter And Moby Dick By Herman Melville

He finds out it was Dimmesdale and then set out to torture him. “[Chillingworth] never set him free again until he has done all it’s bidding. He now dug into the poor clergyman’s heart” (Hawthorne 117). Hester tells Chillingworth to stop, but Chillingworth does not. He wants to get revenge on Dimmesdale. Because of this revenge, he loses Hester forever. Chillingworth tortures him in his own best interest. He is selfish. He wants Hester, even though Hester no longer loves him. Even after he has the chance to learn his lesson, Chillingworth still acts in his own interest. He learns that Dimmesdale and Hester are going to leave on a boat, and he books a ticket on the same boat, causing more problems for Hester and Dimmesdale. Chillingworth wants only what was in his own best interest, not what is better for others.

Captain Ahab always had the desire to go after Moby Dick. His obsession grew even deeper when the great white whale took his leg. He spent several years trying to go after the whale. By being the captain of the ship, he had crew members come along on his journey to help slay the whale. His passion grew deeper each day as he lived amongst the ship and set sails to complete his mission.

Moby Dick, a book about the voyages and pursuance of a white whale, was imagined by an incredible man. Herman Melville was a talented writer who wrote many fantasies and adventures, including Moby Dick. He’s most infamous for his work about the tale of the white whale and known less for his works of Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life and Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. (“Herman

He tells his crew, "He tasks me; he heaps me; I see him in outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.” He tries to convince his crew that what he's doing is for a good cause. Ahab is willing to do whatever it takes to convince his crew to help him on his journey to kill Moby Dick. Ahab has to persuade them that hunting Moby Dick is more important than earning a profit. Ahab persuades his crew shows that he willing to kill his crew if it means having a better chance at achieving his

This motivation drove his evil deeds. The other characters, while having made bad decisions, were not motivated by destruction, but rather lust, perhaps even love. The intent of Dimmsdale and Hester’s relationship and behavior was not to intentionally harm anyone. Conversely, Chillingworth is evil at heart. Chillingsworth’s sin is revenge and he it is whole intention inflict the most damage possible upon Dimmesdale. The fact that Hollingsworth’s goal is to cause others pain shows that he is evil. Another example of Chillingworth’s true nature can be found in chapter 14 “in a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into the devil”(page 110). Chillingworth explains to Hester that his evil nature will not allow him to stop harming Dimmesdale. Perfect in his role as “The Leech”, Chillingworth is not only fueled by Dimmesdale’s suffering, but it is necessary for him to survive. Chillingworth's character cannot exist without causing others pain. Chillingsworth’s sadistic nature and the severe extent to which it controls and directs his life is a clear sign that Chillingworth is an evil person

Although characters like Hester and Dimmesdale manage to rise above their sin, Chillingworth loses himself in it until there is no more to him than revenge. As he loses his humanity and tries to take Dimmesdale’s, Chillingworth becomes a more demon-like figure. Pearl, who is very perceptive, calls him Satan, “yonder old Black Man” (92), and he takes on devilish characteristics like “a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the old man’s soul were on fire”

            Later on during the story while Hester and Chillingworth are in the woods talking about Dimmesdale, Hester shouts at Chillingworth, "You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! Your clutch is on his life and you cause him to die daily a living death!" (Pg. 156) Hester knows Chillingworth has more evil in his blood than ever before in his life; he feeds off the pain he causes Dimmesdale and enjoys every minute of it. Chillingworth doesn't realize in the slightest how much more evil flows through his veins now, than did before in his life. It

Chillingworth is very anxious to get vengeance on Arthur, and the following quote displays this: “At his arrival in the marketplace,...very soon, however, his look became keen and penetrative.” (Hawthorne 8) This quote diagrams the mood of Chillingworth immediately. He already began to look at people with a look of keen and penetration. In chapter three, Chillingworth speaks to Dimmesdale non-venerably. “Must it be thou; or I, that shall deal with this poor sinner’s soul.” (Hawthorne 11) When Chillingworth says he’s going to deal with his soul, Chillingworth suggests that he’s going to seek his revenge upon him. Later in the chapter, we see Chillingworth get even more vengeful. “Live, therefore, and bear about thy doom with thee, in the eyes of men and women-in the eyes of him whom than didst call thy husband.” (Hawthorne 16) Again, we see Chillingworth’s desire to seek his revenge upon Dimmesdale. Chillingworth is a man of great vengeance, and this is clearly noted in the Scarlet

Paul, Stacie 5 October 2015 Research Paper Nagelkirk Section #3 Chillingworth’s Demise The Scarlet Letter is a book full of suffering and shame that causes multiple characters to endure many different types of pain. There are many horrible aches that inflict the main characters in their battles between their hearts and their minds. Although there are several characters who suffer throughout the course of the book, there is one character that one might not consider who endures significantly more misfortune than any other character. The purpose of this paper is to prove that Roger Chillingworth suffers the most throughout the course of The Scarlet Letter through physical suffering, emotional suffering, and the loss of his humanity.

He is sick and tormented for the adultery he participated in with Hester. He is sick because he is a minister, a man of God, and he sinned. He not only sinned, but he made a child that he neither claims or cares for. His secret is killing him. Another person who is internally struggling is Hester’s husband, who is pretending to be Chillingworth, and who is helping Dimmesdale suffer. He is intent on revenge for the act that Dimmesdale and Hester did. Chillingworth is obsessed with ruining Dimmesdale. Chillingworth’s secret revenge is damaging himself, Dimmesdale, Hester, and

The scarlet letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in colonial Boston; the story depicts a troubled lady who is plagued by ignominy that she faces when she bears a child that is born from an unknown father. Her actual husband is a physician named Roger Chillingworth, who despite Hester’s unfaithfulness is supportive of her in the beginning of the story. Another classical novel of that time period, Moby Dick, tells the story of a young man who is fascinated by the sea named Ishmael. This character is a former schoolteacher who travels to Nantucket to board a whaling ship and begin a long and treacherous journey that he would surely never forget. Both of the two main antagonist evil in these classical novels is shown in various ways, and one even shows his much more than the other, Chillingsworth is more secretive and suspicious, while Ahab will risk the lives of his whole crew due to his own greed.

Moby-Dick is considered to be one of, if not the, best novels in American history. Harper & Brothers first published it in 1851 in New York. In England, it was published in the same year under the title, The Whale (“Moby Dick”). Melville explores topics and themes that were scarcely spoken of and never even seen in a novel. In the novel, the Pequod, which is the ship, is named after a Native American tribe that was exterminated when the white settlers arrived. It is a symbol of death and doom and foreshadows event that occur later in the novel. Melville brings some very controversial themes to light in the novel. Revenge is one of the main themes of Dark Romanticism and Melville uses it to drive every action taken by Ahab. This is seen early on in the novel as Ahab explains to the crew why he has a peg leg and that he wants to enact his revenge on Moby Dick (Melville 160-161). “Moby Dick is, fundamentally, a revenge tragedy. It’s about one man’s maniacal obsession with vengeance. It’s about finding an object on which to pin all you anger and fear and rage, not only about your own suffering, but also about the suffering of all mankind” (“Moby

In the gothic novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adulteress Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wrecked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. Another American gothic novel, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with the white whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab share very similar traits, they were both evil, seeking revenge, and also obsessed with what they are seeking revenge on.

Explain Ahab’s last speech found at the top of page 623 through the end of the paragraph ending with “Thus, I give up the spear.” In what way is Moby Dick a “…all-destroying but unconquering

While Ahab was still the obedient captain he once was, he was one of the most successful and higher rewarding captains. Unexpectedly, in the midst of a whaling, Ahab and his crew encountered the whale he now refers to as “Moby Dick” or “the white whale.” The crew initiated in capturing the whale, but this whale was different. Rather than capturing the whale, the whale captured Ahab and though Ahab escaped, he did not escape entirely. Moby Dick had dismembered and consumed half of one of Ahab’s legs. Ever since this incident, Ahab’s one and only desire or, as stated in the text, “...his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought” has been to kill Moby Dick; which soon turns him obsessive (Melville). Ahab would not let anyone or anything stop him from achieving his goal, “...’I’ll chase him ‘round Good Hope, and ‘round the Horn, and ‘round the Norway Maelstrom, and ‘round