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Life Birthplace: New York City. Family: Both his parents came from well-to-do families, but later their family business failed. Melville’s childhood was happy to the age of 11, when his father died in debt. Education: left school at the age of 15 and educated himself while working a variety of jobs. Experience: bank clerk; salesman; farm-hand; school teacher; sailor; official of custom house in New York City Marriage: Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Death: He died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891, at the age of 72. Experience: bank clerk; salesman; farm-hand; school teacher; sailor; official of custom house in New York City Marriage: Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Death: Melvilles final years were marked by personal tragedy. One of his sons shot himself in 1867, and another son, died after a long illness. He died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891, at the age of 72. Element of fiction setting character point of view plot theme style Themes of Moby Dick 1. Search for truth The story deals with the human pursuit of truth and the meaning of existence. 2. Conflict between Man and Nature. 3. Solipsism. That captain was Ahab. … Moby Dick had reaped away Ahabs leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. (Chapter 41 p40 ) usliterature2012@126.com 2009f01t06 For, it was not so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out- a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump. These were his prominent f