Melville 麦尔维尔.pptVIP

Themes (A)????Self vs. the hostile world In Moby-Dick, man has a line individual fight against the hostile universe, that is, Ahab fights against the whale. Moby Dick is by no means an ordinary creature. She is immortal, ubiquitous, omnipotent and all-powerful. Being malignant, she has killed countless people as they struggle to catch her, not excluding Ahab who has lost one of his legs in one of the deadly confrontations. In Ahab’s eye, Moby Dick, supernatural and mythical, represents the hostile world of either nature or God. He looks on the whale as his enemy who has mortally inflicted h