Plot
Ishmael, the narrator, having little money and finding life on shore grim, decides to go to a.On a cold, gloomy night in December, he arrives at the Spouter-Inn in New Bedford, Massachutts, and agrees to share a bed with a then-abnt stranger. When his bunkmate, a heavily tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, returns very late and discovers Ishmael beneath his covers, both men are alarmed, but the two quickly become clo friends and decide to sail together from Nantucket, Massachutts on a whaling voyage.
He signs aboard the whaling ship named Pequod. It’s captain, Ahab, is a tall, broad man emingly made of bronze. He has a white leg, made from the jaw of a sperm whale,becau his own leg is torn away by Moby Dick— a huge white whale. After loosing his leg he is determined to pursue Moby Dick and kill it. He hangs a doubloon on the mast as a reward for anyone who sights the white whale first.
Eventually the white whale appears, and the Pequod begins its doomed fight against it. On
the first day the whale smashes a whaleboat. The cond day, another boat is swamped, the captain’s ivory leg is snapped off. When third day comes, Ahab ignores this voice of reason and continues with his ill-fated cha. As the three boats sail out to hunt him, Moby Dick damages two of them, forcing them to go back to the ship and leaving only Ahab's vesl intact. Ahab harpoons the whale, but the harpoon-line breaks. Moby Dick then rams the Pequod itlf, which begins to sink. As Ahab harpoons the whale again, the unfolding harpoon-line catches him around his neck and he is dragged into the depths of the a by the diving Moby Dick. The boat is caught up in the whirlpool of the sinking ship, which takes almost all the crew to their deaths. Only Ishmael survives, clinging to Queequeg’s coffin-turned-life buoy for an entire day and night before the other ship rescues him.
罗列的近义词Captain Ahab熟悉的一个人
Ahab, the Pequod’s obsd captain, reprents both an ancient and a quintesntially modern type of hero. Like the heroes of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, Ahab suffers fr
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om a single fatal flaw, one he shares with such legendary characters as Oedipus and Faust. His tremendous overconfidence, or hubris, leads him to defy common n and believe that, like a god, he can enact his will and remain immune to the forces of nature. He considers Moby Dick the embodiment of evil in the world, and he pursues the White Whale monomaniacally becau he believes it his inescapable fate to destroy this evil. Unlike the heroes of older tragic works, however, Ahab suffers from a fatal flaw that is not necessarily inborn but instead stems from damage, in his ca both psychological and physical, inflicted by life in a harsh world. He is as much a victim as he is an aggressor, and the symbolic opposition that he constructs between himlf and Moby Dick propels him toward what he considers a destined end.
I think that Ahab reprents a perver version of Emersonian man, becau on one hand, he is confident to his own power so that he punishes the evil thing Moby Dick which shows the importance of the individual. But on the other hand, in order to take his own revenge, Ahab led crews to the death, which is scared and cruel, just like a Satan.
Moby Dick and its whiteness
Moby Dick posss various symbolic meanings for various individuals.
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1) Symbol of nature for human beings, becau it is mysterious, powerful, unknown.
2) Symbol of evil for the Captain Ahab.
3) Symbol of good and purity becau of its whiteness.
初中几何模型To the Pequod’s crew, the legendary White Whale is a concept onto which they can displace their anxieties about their dangerous and often very frightening jobs. Becau they have no delusions about Moby Dick acting malevolently toward men or literally embodying evil, tales about the whale allow them to confront their fear, manage it, and continue to function. Ahab, on the other hand, believes that Moby Dick is a manifestation of all that is wrong with the world, and he feels that it is his destiny to eradicate this symbolic evil.
Moby Dick also bears out interpretations not tied down to specific characters.pulled In its inscrutable silence and mysterious habits, for example, the White Whale can be read as
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an allegorical reprentation of an unknowable God. As a profitable commodity, it fits into the scheme of white economic expansion and exploitation in the nineteenth century. As a part of the natural world, it reprents the destruction of the environment by such hubristic expansion.
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