Type of Work
. ..Moby Dick (actual title: Moby-Dick, or the Whale) is a novel of epic proportions with characteristics of Greek and Elizabethan stage tragedies. pleted the book at Arrowhead, Mass., where he lived for a while. Moby Dick is arguably the greatest sea novel ever written. Some critics also maintain that is the greatest American novel ever written.
. . Characters
. Protagonist: Captain Ahab
Antagonist: The Whale, Symbolizing the Forces Working Against Ahab
Ishmael: Pequod seaman and narrator of most of the action. The first two sentences of his narration in Chapter 1 make up one of the most famous passages in American literature: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world."
Ahab: Captain of the Pequod. He lost a leg to Moby Dick and replaced it with a prosthesis made of whale bone. Ruled by vengeance, his main goal in life is to track and kill the great whale. The narrator says of him, "There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of [his] glance. . . [M]oody stricken Ahab stood before [the crew] with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty
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