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Captain Ahab : From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. Captain Ahab : I don't give reasons. I give orders! Starbuck, first mate : To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.
Captain Ahab casts the white whale, Moby Dick, as his enemy and the whale seems to respond in kind. Beyond the formal representation of natural enemies, Ahab and the whale are laden with further ...
Moby Dick rams the Pequod and sinks it. Ahab is then caught in a harpoon line and hurled out of his harpoon boat to his death. All of the remaining whaleboats and men are caught in the vortex created by the sinking Pequod and pulled under to their deaths. Ishmael, who was thrown from a boat at the beginning of the chase, was far enough away to ...
Share Cite. Ahab is able to convince his crew to follow him on his vengeful mission to kill the white whale, Moby Dick, essentially through the power of rhetoric. He clearly has charisma as a ...
Analysis: Chapter 133–135 & Epilogue. Ahab’s long-awaited encounter with Moby Dick brings to mind the drawn-out, fantastic battle scenes of myth and epic. He has sought the whale for a full year, the traditional time span of an epic quest. He now battles the whale for three days, stopping each night to rearm himself and repair the day’s ...
A list of all the characters in Moby-Dick. Moby-Dick characters include: Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Moby Dick, Starbuck, Queequeg, Stubb, Flask, Fedallah.
“Captain Ahab,” said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus far been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder.
