Moby Dick

Date Submitted: 08/04/2003 16:51:37
Category: / Literature / Novels
Length: 5 pages (1351 words)
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…see the whale and the sea as a morally ambivalent cosmos. If so, then the fault of Ahab and the crew of the Pequod is their futile attempt to master a force of nature far beyond their comprehension, and are destroyed for it. The image of Ishmael floating helplessly upon the ocean, without even the wreckage of the Pequod then becomes a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil.
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