Moby Dick Essay

Questions 1.The headwaiter, Ahab wants punish against the great white whale Moby Dick because he lost his leg to the whale. 2.Ishmael is the narrator. The first line is retrieve me Ishmael. 3.The two allusions are the names of Captain ahab and Ishmael. Referring to Captain Ahab Ahab is a wicked king who goes against goes against Gods will, Like how captain Ahab goes against the white whale. Referring to Ishmael Ishmael means outcast or wanderer alike how he seams to be the only person who cares anything of the beauty of nature. 4.To Captain Ahab he all that is evil in the universe. To Starbuck, he is just an animal to be killed for vegetable oil. To Ishmael, he is nature and all its wonder, both attractive and terrifing.5.Melville wrote about whaling to create a cosmic allegory to show the unglamorous a whaling, he had a deep respect for nature and wanted to expose it. The industry was significant because it provided oil for lanterns, streetlamps, and machinery and was the main oil used. 6.Melville set sail for the south pacific when he was 21. 7.Melville befriended Nathaniel Hawthorne while writing Moby Dick. 8.The four harpooners represented unalike races and ethnic groups of the world bringing the Pequod to be like a symbol for the ship of state, a scant(p) democracy. 9.The Pequod is attacked by moby dick and is destroyed. Ahab was caught and shot out of the boat and vanished into the sea.Finally, Ishmael becomes the only survivor of the pequod, he floats some until he is rescued and picked up by another ship, The Rachel. 10.He was unemployed, desperately broke, and took a job as a customs inspector. He was forgotten by the public.Interview Questions to Ahab 1. What exactly did you do on the ship other than diagram the death of Moby-Dick?2. How did you keep up hope that you were actually going to encounter Moby-Dick again?3. How did you recognize and allege Moby Dick apart from all the the other whales in the world?4. Have you wanted to be the cap tain of a whaling ship your entire life? If not what profession did you aspire before?5. Avoiding sailor informal verbiage, can you describe the night of the incident with Moby Dick? Also, do you recommend anyone who is good at fashioning ivory legs if this were to happen to anyone in the future?