In querying “what are... slaves but Fast-Fish” he concludes this line of argumentation, positing that people’s dependence on others makes them all “fast fish.” Melville expands upon this, suggesting that the multilateral nature of this dependence further ties humanity together. In “The Line,” Melville gives another analogy, comparing the whale-line to the ties that connect people (306). He implies these connections are complex, and involve a large group of people: “the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils, twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction” (305). This suggests that interdependence, among “all men,” characterises human relationships…
To seek vengeance on a dumb animal is blasphemous!”(Moby Dick, Roddam), these words contrast to Ahab’s actions showing how outrageous his revenge for his whale is, unlike my reasonable obsession. For Ahab, he wants to kill this whale and will risk all cost just to defeat the whale. In contrast, my whale is something that I, want to overcome, however I wouldn’t put everything I have at risk. Ahab is a very determined person in the movie and tries to adjust his men that way too.…
He describes the sea “like white flames” (Crane 32) which swarmed onto the boat. This simile emphasizes how nature is untamable by man just as the flames of a fire are difficult for a man to control. This simile presents an immense amount of power to nature which creates the idea that nature is violent, unmanageable, unforgiving. This supports the Naturalist view that nature is indifferent towards man. Crane describes the captain and his chuckle as “express[ing} humor, contempt, tragedy, all in one” (31).…
Literature uses the solitude to create strength and society follows with that prophecy as people believe it takes strength that loneliness brings. The belly of the whale only emphasizes the commitment they attach to themselves at this point since the old world has become out of reach and they must focus on finding the exit of this predicament in which they find themselves and when they do it obviously, they will find a new world that leads to the continuation of the journey and get around the problems in their lives and surf through the tidal waves of their predicaments and god only knows where they will end up since in their head all the good vibrations are gone and wouldn’t it be nice if they only go back with thoughts racing through their…
It is Melville’s only fictional work that concentrates on slavery. Therefore, it is incommodious to Melville scholars that the tale is so maddening enigmatic.…
When the correspondent sees the shark he is led to believe his situation could not get any worse, the shark finds no use for them. The men feel an alienation from the ocean, they even go as far to think the universe is being hostile, but the ocean and the shark are only performing normal activity of nature. “No one knew the color of the sky” as the opening line throws readers into the severity of the men’s desperation of surviving their given situation, none of them have time to look up. The men have a limited perspective of what is going on in reality, they live alone in their own. The message is no one on the boat knows anything except the tasks they are up against.…
In the short story “The Boat”, Alistair Macleod describes the conflicting relationship between a mother and a father based on their different attitudes about their children’s futures. The story is told through the perspective of the son in the family, looking back on his childhood in the 1930’s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The narrator begins the story with the first trip he took with his dad on their boat. It was a 32 by 9 foot “Cape Island boat” designed for small inshore fisherman. Coming home to questions from all his family "How did you like the boat?"…
While Keating attempts to teach the students about individuality he fails to caution that it comes with responsibility. This significantly hindered the decisions of the naïve children especially Neil, so much so that he felt he was unable to fulfil his individuality. McMurphy however is a prominent symbol within the novel and is especially shown when he sports boxers with white whales. These boxers sporting the whales suggest the connection between the novel Moby-Dick, this whale is associated with many symbolic connotations like freedom and power. There is much symbolism within both texts including the black birds in Dead Poet’s Society which symbolise freedom while the pure snow symbolizes purity until he vomits on it.…
In the disastrous and murderous island of Lord of the Flies, author William Golding creates suspense and confusion as kids progress as their own evil selves in this novel. In the green and scar filled jungle, the sandy beach, and the rock and cliff filled mountain terrain in the boat shaped island, Golding portrays the color white in the novel as a symbol for purity and innocence for civilization. During Simon’s wrongfully killing for him being mistaken as the beast, the little boy is presented as an innocent being of civilization.…
The documentary, Blackfish has made this film targeting the audience of the general public. The film shows a big emphasis on the clients of Sea World, San Francisco. The intention of this film is to let the observers know that Sea World has been treating orcas in a in humane way, and unliveable conditions in amusement parks. The Killer Whale has a very delicate mental status.…
A significant event that was the result of evil is the racial bias that takes place in modern day America. The evil nature within this event is people that don’t understand or don’t want to include these people in society without stereotypes. Also, a daily struggle to do everyday things without being discriminated against. This event transpired from a society that is lead by people that have racial bias. This has created an even bigger problem because of the children and young adults that grow up in a home around people that show an example for one another.…
Years before Herman Melville crafted his famous novel, Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe published his very own novel which deals with sea exploration; it is titled, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Interestingly enough, Poe, himself, was not too happy with his novel, he describes to William E. Burton in a letter, that his novel is “a very silly book” (“Edgar Allan Poe to…”). Within the novel, Poe (or supposedly, Pym) writes about a long and tragic sea expedition, an expedition which at first seemed harmless, that is, until mutiny and cannibalism made their way into the plot. Pym is overwhelmingly judgmental towards people who are not white. Poe’s underlying message in his novel is that skin color determines personal judgment and fear.…
From the onset Melville creates an unsettling and uncomfortable atmosphere which is consistent throughout the novella, immediately tipping the reader off to something not being right: “the ship … with the shreds of fog here and there raggedly furring her, appeared like a white-washed monastery after a thunder storm, seen perched upon some dun cliff among the Pyrenees” (Krupat and Levine, 2007, p.2406). The tone set here makes way for the revelation that “the strangeness of the ship is an element of the soul’s delusion” (Chase, 1965, p.120). With Captain Delano, he introduces a character similarly blinded by pre conceived notions about society as the lawyer was in Bartleby. The Captains views on slavery are incredibly opaque by today’s standards and present a disturbing view of what was perceived normal in many American states at the time. It is shown that “he carries in his head a parcel of platitudes that the historian George Fredrickson has called ‘romantic racialism’”…
Qurrat Ulain Mr. Stevens ELA 10 27th September, 2015 Relation Between the Motif of “Blackness” and “Racism” in Shakespeare 's Othello Most individuals often assume the words “blackness” and “racism” to be connected. The reason for this is because various imbeciles who are racist, sometimes believe that people of other races will not go to heaven. In addition, during the Elizabethan era, large amounts of people believed that black was the colour of witchcraft so it would make sense for an uneducated person of that time to be racist against black people. In Shakespeare’s…
Melville incorporated historical realism, nature, and relatable characters in the novel. The novel Moby Dick is based highly on the life of its author Herman Melville who did take up the profession of whaling at a point in his life. The novel is also based on a real…