Vengeance In Herman Melville's Moby Dick

The great American epic, “Moby Dick”, is rivaled in greatness, when it comes to literature, by very few other books in history. The story of Moby Dick is one of vengeance. The story goes that there was a captain who had gotten his leg taken by a great white whale and went out to search the seas to find it to get vengeance upon it. Moby Dick was published in 1851 by a man by the name of Herman Melville. Herman Melville got the idea for the story from being a whaler in his earlier years starting at age 19. During that time he heard the tale of a great white whale who destroyed a ship named the Essex that had been at sea for months without even a sighting of a whale when they had landed on the coast of South America. There, they heard the story of a place where there are whales for as far as the eye can see but there was also a demon like whale. They heard this story from a captain who had gotten his ship destroyed by this evil whale. But of course the captain of the Essex, George Pollard, didn’t believe in this tale, so he and his crew went to find the whales and next thing they know their ship was destroyed and they were stranded at …show more content…
That the creator was different than everyone else or unique. Herman Melville was a prime example of this. In the film he was very persistent man. More than anyone else and because of it the sole survivor, Thomas, ended up telling him the story of the Essex. This is just one example of a special trait displayed by a romantic artist but people not only believed that the artist was special but because the artist was, so would there work. The book “Moby Dick” ended up being special not only because it was a great story but also because it was written by a special individual. Sometimes it takes a special person to create something truly unique and this is one of the core beliefs of the