自我小结大学生Hello everyone
Today the story I am going to share is about a man----Capitan Ahab and a mammal---- white whale Moby-Dick. 百年难遇Maybe some of you are not familiar with this novel yet, so before entering the topic we can recall another novel first----The old man and the a. Both as the well-known American novels Moby-Dick and The old man and the a share a lot of similarities and difference. They both tell the story of man and nature, as well as a hunting. But unlike the fortitude character Santiago, Ahab is cold lonely stubborn lfish and he is shaped into the embodiment of evil.
With the first impressions of Moby-Dick, let’s start to read this novel.
My prentation is divided into three parts: the synopsis; the author and the theme.
First is the synopsis. I just choo a very very brief version today to help you to get familiar with this novel. 立达人酒店You can find a more detailed version in our textbook, page 188.
Captain Ahab, who, having lost a leg in an earlier battle with White Whale, is determined to
catch the beast and destroy it. He and his sailors live a dramatic life at a. They kill lots of whales but Ahab refus to turn back until he has killed his enemy. Eventually, the white whale appears, and they begins doomed fight against is. On the first day, the whale overturns a boat, on the cond it swamps another. when the third day comes, Ahab and his sailors manage to plunge a harpoon into it, but the whale carries the Pequod（the boat）alone with it to its doom. All on the board the whaler get drown, except one, Ishmael, who survives to tell the truth.
Then is something about the author Herman Melville.
Life
Born in New York City in 1819, Melville’s childhood was very happy until he was 11 years old when suddenly his father died in debt. He dropped early and tried all kinds of jobs----banking, farming, clerking, and teaching. When all this failed to offer him a decent livelihood, he went to a.
There are three things which derve to mention in his life and going out of a is one of them. (The other two is his marriage and his friendship with Hawthorne).
Restless and venturesome by temperament, Melville shipped as a cabin boy on a merchant vesl to England in 1839, when he was only twenty years old. At twenty-two he signed for a voyage on the whaler Acushnet. This voyage did not prosper and he with another youth named Tobias derted the ship in a remote pacific island. His adventures led to his literary career. His experience on the a furnished him with abundant material for fiction. Here are some of his famous works.
Typee（1846） was a romanticized account of his stay among the Polynesians.
Omoo（1847） the quel of Typee was about his adventures on Tahiti and other islands.
Redburn（1849） was bad on his first voyage to England
White-Jacket（1850） and Billy Budd（1891） were bad on his brief career in the nav
y.
People always say it is the works lay a strong foundation for Moby-Dick.
Style
Herman Melville was influenced by veral writers and I will focus on two who we have learned before: James Fenimore Copper and Ralph waldo Emerson.
Copper is the author of the last of the mohicans. An distinguished feature of his works is Grand scene narrative which was also well reflected in Moby-Dick. As Melville himlf said in Moby-Dick “to write a mighty book you must have a mighty theme.” Here he had it----the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the univer and its 彼得潘症候群awesome, sometimes merciless force.
Melville was deeply influenced by transcendentalism. He advocates natural and natural religion. According to transcendentalism, nature is god; god is unbeaten; nature needs human’s fear. 周记600字高中In his novel the a and Moby-Dick are the symbols of a mysterious supern
atural power and 设备验收can be considered as the physical manifestation of God's prence. In this novel a priest repeatedly chanting “But the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah” which shows the transcendentalism thoughts of author. The white whale is like a white angel fighters nding by god to punish human and the anti-hero Ahab is made to warn human that nature cannot be conquered. Ahab’s whaler and artificial limb are made by whale bones which symbolizes the destruction and conquest of nature by human. But at the end of the story, nature punishes human----both Ahab and his whaler are destroyed.
Theme
Moby-Dick is considered one of the world’s greatest masterpieces. It is not only a detailed account of whaling, but also a book of history, philosophy and religion. It is therefore, an encyclopedia of the 19th century American mind and America itlf.
As I mentioned, Moby-Dick is an encyclopedia. Therefore, it involves veral themes: revenge, the relationship between man and nature, love and friendship, religion, abandon
期盼的拼音and pursuit.
I have analyzed the relationship between man and nature in the previous part. And at this part I will focus on the revenge as well as abandon and pursuit.
This novel shows us two kinds of revenge.
The revenge between human and the white whale.
The revenge among humans.
We have already known the revenge story between white whale and Ahab.
But in the capital 54 The Town-Ho Story, the author also describe a revenge story among humans. Becau of a trivial thing the mate and a sailor started to hate each other. The mate ud his power to harm the sailor and the sailor refud to cooperate with the mate even when they found the boat was leaking. In the critical moment of white whale hunt喝茶好处ing, become of their noncooperation, the white whale ran and the mate was killed by
the white whale. It ems that by telling this story the author wants to show that revenge is inherent in human nature of evil, and if we do not control it, it would lead us to folio even death.
