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Moby Dick

hosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!”2 Starbuck tells Ahab that he came to hunt whales, not his commander’s vengeance. As the savage harpooners drink, “Death to Moby Dick!” Starbuck mutters, “God help me!—keep us all!”3 Starbuck is well aware that Ahab will soon place all the men in immediate danger. Spending most of his time on deck and only seldom descending into the cabin, Ahab appears to be a sympathetic character in some aspects. During the night watches, old Ahab is on deck, pacing with his artificial leg. Ahab has been in search for Moby Dick before but Moby Dick escaped the loony captain. Ahab has been trapped in a world gone mad for an extremely long time. Since the day he was unable to catch the feared Moby Dick, his life was never the same. Ahab himself is trapped in madness and states, “May God damn us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!”4 Starbuck sees Captain Ahab’s whale map and disagrees. Ahab defined he distinctly knew what he was doing, “Dumb brute blasphemy—kills and mutilate out race. I would strike the sun if it offended me,”5 and he would not let Moby Dick get away this time no matter what the circumstance. Ahab was well aware of the trapped world he was inflicting on the shipmates but was only out for one thing; his fanatical self. Therefore, the innocent men are trapped in a world gone mad the very day the ship leaves the dock. Ishmael, Starbuck, and Captain Ahab are all trapped in a world of tragedy. These men were trapped by the madness of Captain Ahab. It was indeed their freewill to board the ship, but when they boarded they were unknowing of Ahab’s lunacy and hatred for Moby Dick. People’s dreams can indeed make them ballistic and Ahab was one of those people. ...

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