Moby Dick
I have studies
this novel in my first year of graduation. Moby
Dick is a novel written by Herman
Melville, an American Writer. Ahab is a protagonist of the novel and
captain of the ship named ‘Pequod’ is a whaling ship which goes for huge voyage
the white whale at the beginning of the novel and destroyed by the
white whale at end of the novel.
This is the
novel of Physical adventure and psychological one. It folds two voyages one is voyage upon
seas and other is voyage into the human mind. Melville shows how the Ahab’s
mind working to take revenge from White whale a once in a voyage because of white whale he lost his one leg.
Ishmael is a narrator he is only one
who survives till the end of the novel.
Here , the violent side of Nature is shown as Ahab try to destroy the nature by
killing white whale. But Nature punished
him by toke his life and many other’s life with him. So, the Nature has both
side happier as well as sad side. As Wordsworth’s
poetry about Nature as happier side and as Mother of
Human beings but when we read the poems of Robert
Frost , he has presented sad side of Nature which destroy human’s life.
Ahab lost his
life at the end only because of his ego, pride and wish of taking revenge from
white whale .While Ishmael’s mind developed throughout the voyage and his
emergence as philosopher cum psychologist who can speak authoritatively on
human life and its vicissitude. Rightly does Ishmael say that the Pequod served
as his Yale college and as his Harvard University.
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