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Moby Dick, the White Whale
An interpretation
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Points to ponder
• 1. The five conflicts: man - man, God, society, nature, and himself
• 2. The big white whale ( an archetype, a brother, a super-natural power, a teacher, a destroyer of human will and determination)
• 3. Ahab ( a sea captain, a leader, a tragic figure)• 4. Ishmael ( a wanderer, a fortune teller, a recorder
and observer of human tragedy)• 5. The beauty of human tragedy--- any human hero is
an Ahab, and any great human act is, to some extent. tragic.
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Man and water
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Our powerful brother created by God one day older than us
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Melville’s day
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The conflict between the brothers
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We will be punished if we have killed our brother
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Ahab in the novel
Ahab in the movie
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Ishmael and his mother
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Ishmael and his mother
Jesus Christ and his mother
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Cultural products of Moby Dick by H. Melville
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The super-natural powerGodThe human fateThe testing stone The unknown difficulties
To be, or not to be, that’s a question