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Chapter 133: The Chase—First Day. Ahab can sense by the smell of a whale in the air that Moby Dick is near. Climbing up to the main royal-mast, Ahab spots Moby Dick and earns himself the doubloon. All of the boats set off in chase of the whale. When Moby Dick finally surfaces, he does so directly beneath Ahab’s boat, destroying it and ...
The three harpooners and Stubb and Flask swim with bits of debris back to the Pequod, and quickly try to make the boats ready and water-tight, to continue to attack Moby Dick. Meanwhile, Ahab sees a horrific sight: Fedallah’s body is trapped against the White Whale’s, for he was caught in one of the harpoon lines and drowned when Moby Dick ...
Analysis. Ahab decides that he wants to ask the blacksmith to forge him a new harpoon, for use in catching the white whale, whom Ahab now calls ‘the white fiend.’. Ahab throws down before the blacksmith a set of old tacks used in the hoofs of “racing horses,” saying that there is no stronger metal to be used in the making of the harpoon ...
All boats except Ahab's are damaged and return to the ship. Ahab manages to sink his fierce harpoon "and his fiercer curse" into the whale; but Moby Dick attacks the Pequod itself and smashes the starboard bow (right front) of the ship, sinking the vessel. From his open boat, Ahab reacts to the sinking of his proud vessel: "The ship!
Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew · Fedallah. Ahab’s decision to have his own harpoon boat and crew, says Ishmael, is not a typical practice in the whaling industry. Captains do not frequently risk themselves in pursuit of whales, and Ahab’s injury makes it even more surprising that he would personally command a harpoon boat.
Starbuck finds Ahab’s ambitions petty and thinks that his behavior will end in mediocrity and failure. Stubb, on the other hand, respects Ahab for his willingness to “live in the game, and die in it!” Chapter 119: The Candles. The next day, the Pequod is caught in a typhoon, and one of the harpoon boats is destroyed. The weird weather ...
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Quick answer: At the end of Melville's novel, Ahab harpoons Moby Dick. In retaliation, Moby Dick attacks and sinks the Pequod; of the entire crew, only Ishmael survives the wreck. The line of Moby ...
