Ahab

Throughout the novel, biblical and Greek allusions help exemplify the nature of human defiance and persistence seen through the futile attempt to undermine nature through Ahab, Elijah, Jonah, and the Fates. The first mythological allusions in the novel are the names of two characters, Elijah and Ahab, who are biblical allusions. When Elijah…

is inexperienced, which makes him an outcast in the eyes of the rest of the crew. Also, Captain Ahab has many similarities to King Ahab, an Israeli King in the…

Captain Ahab and Macbeth possess most if not all the characteristics of a tragic hero. When Macbeth is…

to the extent that he does. Ishmael explains that to those who do not understand whaling and whales in general, attempting to chart where they will be in a giant ocean appears to be hopeless. He responds to this by saying, “but not so did it seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby calculating the driftings of the sperm whale’s food; and, also, calling to mind the regular ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes; could arrive at reasonable…

Ishmel who joined a crew on a whaler ship where the Captain, called Captain Ahab, was obsessive about killing a white whale referred to as Moby-Dick. Searching for this whale caused the ship to go far off course and ended up with the whole crew dying except for Ishmel. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab are both evil characters with many similarities. One of these similarities is vengeance. Both Chillingworth and Captain Ahab want revenge on someone or something. For Chillingworth, he wants…

revenge seeking. The novel Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, is an epic saga of the voyage of the Pequod, a whaling ship, and its captain, Ahab, who endlessly stalked the great sperm whale, Moby Dick, during a journey around the world. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both play the part as the heinous character in these two novels. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both represent a man who is completely consumed by a revenge scheme. According to Chillingworth, Dimmesdale's act is enough to…

Melville, focused its attention on Captain Ahab, the protagonist, and his determination to find the one thing in life he had been searching for. Although Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab lived in two completely different atmospheres at distinctive times, they are both evil characters with many similarities such as they both lost…

In the novels The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick, the two evil characters are Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab. They both possess similar disturbing characteristics. Both authors of these classic novels were able to intertwine malicious characters gracefully into the plot. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have similar personality traits; these similarities are made evident when comparing the Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick characters. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Mr. Roger Chillingworth…

showing us how obsessed Ahab really is with Moby Dick. Melville does this by making what is presumably Moby Dick’s spout of water seem almost divine to Ahab which seems to be driving him insane. Another thing this chapter is showing us is how mad Ahab is being driven while chasing Moby Dick. He takes his men through a horrible storm, a storm so bad that they have to strap themselves to the side rails, just to chase after a whale that may or may not be Moby Dick. All the while Ahab is on the deck…

share the theme of evil. The evil in the work Moby Dick is in Captain Ahab,the captain of a whaling ship, whose only goal was to kill the white whale, Moby Dick,no matter the obstacles or consequences. Evil in The Scarlet Letter was in the form ofRoger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s presumed dead husband. His goal was to cause asmuch pain through guilt to Arthur Dimmesdale, the undisclosed father of Hester Prynne’schild. Ahab and Chillingworth, both manifesting evil, had goals and desires based…