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whales but Ahab refuses to turn back as he hasn’t killed his enemy. Finally, the white whale Moby Dick appears and the ship begins its doomed fight with it. They have fought against the whale for three days. On the first two days, the whale overturns their two boats. When the third days comes, Arab and his crew manage to plunge a harpoon into it, but the whale carries the Pequod along with it to its doom. All on board the whaler get drowned, except one, Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale. What I read was chapter XLI, which tells the fierceness of Moby Dick and the persistence of Capital Ahab in revenging against Moby Dick.
Use of symbolism is one of the most obvious characteristics of the novel. It can be seen clearly from the names of characters, such as Ahab
and Ishmael. Ahab is the pagan king in the Bible. Captain Ahab in the novel is conceited, just like a dictatorial tyrant on board. And Ishmael is a person who is being abandoned in the Bible. In the novel, he is the person abandoned by society. The voyage symbols the search for the ultimate truth of experience or the process for human being to conquer the nature. And Moby Dick, the whale, is the final mystery of the universe or the unconquerable nature.
This chapter is easily divided into two parts. The former part of the chapter depicts the ferocity of Moby Dick with all sorts of rumors and many horrible experiences of fishermen. The description, to some extents, is similar to human’s impression on the mysterious nature. And the latter part emphasizes Captain Ahab’s persistence in revenging against Moby Dick. To some degree, he is considered as human being.
On the one hand, haunted by the ferocity of Moby Dick, people make a lot of rumors or even superstitions. People are afraid of Moby Dick. On the other hand, they also want to conquer Moby Dick, so people keep