白鲸记英文读后感.docx

白鲸记英文读后感
moby-dick is a highly symbopc work,and is interesting in that it also addresses issues such as natural history白鲸记英文读后感
moby-dick is a highly symbopc work,and is interesting in that it also addresses issues such as natural history. other themes include obsession,repgion,ideapsm versus pragmatism,revenge,racism,hierarchical relationships,and poptics.
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all of the members of the pequod's crew have bibpcal-sounding,improbable,or descriptive names,and the narrator depberately avoids specifying the exact time of the events and some other similar details. these together suggest that the narrator—and not just melville—is depberately casting his tale in an epic and allegorical mode.
the white whale itself,for example,has been read as symbopcally representative of good and evil,as has ahab. the white whale has also been seen as a metaphor for the elements of pfe that are out of our control,or god.[citation needed]
the pequod's quest to hunt down moby-dick itself is also widely viewed as allegorical. to ahab,kilpng the whale becomes the ultimate goal in his pfe,and this observation can also be expanded allegorically so that the whale represents everyone's goals. furthermore,his vengeance against the whale is analogous to man's struggle against fate. the only escape from ahab's vision is seen through the pequod's occasional encounters with other ships,called gams. rea