Compare And Contrast In The Heart Of The Sea And Moby Dick

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In The Heart of the Sea & Moby Dick
In the Heart of the Sea, the true story of the historical adaption Moby Dick. Moby Dick, the critically acclaimed novel, in which a captain’s obsession with a monstrous whale radiates of to his crew. These two stories are both similar, yet different in ways to be told. The true question is can man survive the attacks nature has in store for both men in both stories. In the Heart of the Sea, the real life encounter of the famous Herman Melville’s story Moby Dick. This book now film, tells the survival story of the men of the Essex, which was a whale hunting ship sent from Nantucket, which sadly did not return to its port. This is due to an unlikely attack; this attack was by a sperm whale. This sperm whale sunk, the Essex and left its inhabitants to survive the perilous natural world. No amount of survival courses or preparations could train these men to endure what they faced.
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Herman Melville had gone to Nantucket and during his trip discussed the horrors of the whaling ships disaster with none other than Mr. Pollard himself. Herman Melville of course fictionalized the captain in the story, who is the famous Captain Ahab, and his vow for vengeance towards Moby Dick. As we know the Essex Captain, who is Captain George Pollard Jr., had no ties to the large white sperm whale and no vengeance. Obsession towards Moby Dick, lead Captain Ahab to lead his crew into intermediate death.
In the Heart of the Sea, the true story of the historical adaption Moby Dick. Moby Dick, the critically acclaimed novel, in which a captain’s obsession with a monstrous whale radiates of to his crew. The literature Moby Dick compares nothing to the events of the Essex men. It’s just a fictionalized version of the events that took place on the Essex and after the Essex and In the Heart of the Sea does a great job telling

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