It seems pretty easy to identify Ishmael and his role in Moby-Dick: he’s a young, wh...
Captain Ahab: one of the best whaling captains in Nantucket, the commander of the Pequod,...
Queequeg, like his best buddy Ishmael, has a bit of wanderlust in him. The son of a king on a (fi...
Moby Dick, the legendary White Whale, is an awfully generous sperm whale. He not only lends his n...
Starbuck, the first mate on board the Pequod, is a long, thin, earnest Nantucket Quaker. H...
Stubb, the second mate on board the Pequod, is a jolly man from Cape Cod who likes to laug...
Flask, the third mate on board the Pequod, is a "short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pu...
Tashtego is a Native American from Gay Head, the westernmost point of Martha’s Vineyard, an...
Daggoo is an African tribesman from a costal village who voluntarily joined a whaling ship when h...
Pip is a young African-American boy, one of the lowest-ranking sailors on board the Pequod...
Fedallah is the harpooneer whom Ahab secretly smuggles aboard the Pequod in order to staff...
Captains Peleg and Bildad are retired Nantucket whaling captains who are now co-owners of the ...
Father Mapple is the clergyman at the little New Bedford Whaleman’s Chapel that Ishmael and...
Captain Boomer, the commander of the English whaling ship the Samuel Enderby, is like Ahab...