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Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod . On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone.
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Captain Ahab. Captain Ahab is the tyrannical captain of Pequod. Prior to the events of the novel, Captain Ahab lost his leg while hunting Moby Dick, leading to a monomaniacal desire in Ahab to kill the "White Whale". It is his obsession with Moby Dick that dooms Pequod and her crew, with Ishmael as the sole survivor.
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Oct 14, 2016 · Answer has 3 votes. In the book, before the ship sets sail, one of the owners, Capt. Peleg, says the name Ahab "'Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother," which would make Ahab a first name.
- Captain Ahab Ceely.
- If you'll look in Melville's book, Ahab is the only name he has! Ahab was just Ahab - no 'first' or 'last' name, just like Ishmael, Queequeg, Star...
- The only instance I can find of a last name for Captain Ahab in Moby Dick is from the 1930 movie starring John Barrymore as Captain Ahab Ceely. ww...
- In the book, before the ship sets sail, one of the owners, Capt. Peleg, says the name Ahab "'Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mo...
Captain Ahab, fictional character, a one-legged captain of the whaling vessel Pequod in the novel Moby Dick (1851), by Herman Melville. From the time that his leg is bitten off by the huge white whale called Moby Dick, Captain Ahab monomaniacally pursues his elusive nemesis.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
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- October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom), November 14, 1851 (US)
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- Herman Melville
Captain Ahab. Ahab, the Pequod ’s obsessed captain, represents both an ancient and a quintessentially modern type of hero. Like the heroes of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, Ahab suffers from a single fatal flaw, one he shares with such legendary characters as Oedipus and Faust.
Ahab Character Analysis. The “monomaniacal” captain of the Pequod, Ahab is a brooding, proud, solitary figure, deathly angry that the monster Moby Dick has eaten his leg. Ahab vows revenge on the animal, even though others, like Starbuck, warn him that no “revenge” is possible against a “dumb animal.”.
