Category: Book Moby Dick Or The Whale

Between Question and Imperative: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick, is a profound, philosophical meditation on life centered on the symbolic hunt for the white whale. The divine connotations of the whale are evident. In Melville’s works, nature is transparent enough to allow a glimpse of the metaphysical reality beyond it… 2…

A young American with the Biblical name Ishmael has troubles with job and money and decides to try himself as a sailor on a whaler. In the first half of XIX century – the time when the story’s event take place – the American whaling port of New Bedford is neither biggest nor richest at…