Pequod

and in the way he views life. Ishmael learns to accept people who are different and learns how to get along with people he never would of on land because of the way they look. On land, the world's affairs are important but by taking a voyage on the Pequod, Ishmael learns to block out the importance of these affairs and free himself from the restraints put on him by society on land. Ishmael has founds a place more beautiful and more peaceful than anywhere on land by journeying out on the ocean. The

Ahab, captain of the Pequod, lost his leg to the renowned whale known as Moby Dick. He will go to the ends of the earth to get revenge on this animal. Throughout the novel, he leads his crew on a journey of retribution. Ahab is quite strong-minded when it comes to this for if the crew deems a situation hazardous he refuses to back down; due to the intense passion of the conflict he has with Moby Dick. Ahab has a deep desire to kill Moby Dick, which leads him to go mad, and ends in the death of every

death is becoming a life saver. This can suggest that death will be the crew’s savior in order to escape Ahab’s tyranny. The Pequod Meets the Rachel 1. The biblical Rachel was the wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph, Israel’s savior, and Joseph. 2. Ahab speaks first and asks if the Rachel has seen Moby, to which they respond that they did yesterday and ask if the Pequod has seen a lost whale boat. Ahab’s negative reaction demonstrates his egomaniacal dehumanization because he doesn’t even stop

time when the fight over race was more relevant than ever. Although some may argue that race cannot be argued in Moby Dick, an article from The Massachusetts Review says, “the novel is a a floating Babel of racial types” (Bernard). The order of the Pequod demonstrates the hierarchy of race in the world at this time. Due to the focus on the “whiteness of the whale”, the broad-mindedness of the characters, and the secondary position of the colored characters. The narrator, Ishmael discusses the whiteness

biblical past” (146). In other words, Pardes is stating that the points of biblical references are made to help enable the transfer of Jonah into the nineteenth century by means of recreating the character into Ishmael, Who is the sole survivor of the Pequod. However, as Pardes points out in her article, “Nowhere else in the Bible does a fish swallow a human being only to vomit him out safe and sound after three day” (142). Which brings the point that Ishmael is Jonah not in the sense that he was swallowed

Reading Moby-Dick as Ethnic Allegory At a time when images of the white settler conquering the "savage" frontier were prevalent in antebellum America, depictions of racial polarization and, alternately, co-existence among different ethnic groups had already begun to find expression in various artistic mediums, from painting to literature. Today more than ever, such works continue to elicit critical re-examinations where race relations, colonization, and literary representation are concerned

the vortex of monomania by Ahab. He uses this coin to focus everyone’s attentions and goals into finding Moby Dick. However, the coin incident is not the only symbol that Melville uses to display Captain Ahab’s monomania. As they are sailing, the Pequod passes various ships along their journey. Upon meeting with these ships, Ahab asks them if they’ve seen a white whale, and refuses to help them because he is afraid that it will interfere and delay the process of capturing Moby Dick. Because of

conveyed in Moby Dick is the journey itself. This is broken into the physical journey, the spiritual journey, and life’s journey. The physical journey of Moby Dick is depicted by the information gained of the labor intensive actions performed on the Pequod as well as other whaling ships. Life on whaling ships does not seem very relaxed. Many hours of sleep are lost at night, some do not sleep at all, and when you

In Chapter 99 of Moby-Dick, the crew of the Pequod examines the doubloon nailed to the mast and attempt to analyze its symbolism. Just as Ahab and his crew tried to find meaning in the doubloon, so too do we find meaning in what we choose to discuss in writing. And, like the crew of the Pequod, our interpretations can--and will--vary wildly. Every member of the Pequod interpreted the doubloon in vastly different ways depending on their own personal values

Ahab is faced with many forewarnings about the dangers of pursuing the white whale, but his overconfidence causes him to overlook these warnings and continue on to what will be his unfortunate end. Incidentally, the Pequod is stuck in a fierce typhoon and the ship is faced with nearly disastrous conditions, even so, Ahab sees “Look up at it; mark it well, the white flame but lights the way to the White Whale!” (Melville 486). The typhoon itself is warning the ship to