The White Whale
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Dave Barry once gave potential Englis...
Nineteenth-Century America: Nantucket and the New England Coast; the Open Sea and the Pequod
When Ishmael decides to take a whaling voyage, one of his r...First Person (Peripheral Narrator); First Person (Central Narrator); Third Person (Omniscient Narrator)
For nearly the first 40 chapters of the novel, Moby-...Autobiography; Adventure; Literary Fiction; Psychological Thriller; Quest; Tragedy
Moby-Dick collects genres the way some people collect loose change: t...Versatile; Meditative, Sarcastic, Tragic
The main term we’re going to use to describe Melville’s tone in Moby-Dick is versatile. It&...Convoluted, Grandiose, Highly-Wrought
One example of what we mean when we argue that the style of Moby-Dick is convoluted is to read the third paragraph...Well, on the most basic level, this is a novel about a hunting quest, and the title of the novel is the name of the beast that’s being hunted: Moby Dick, the White Whale. It does seem a littl...
Moby-Dick never has just one of something when it could collect the whole set. It doesn’t have just one epigraph – it has 80. Literally 80. We counted. We won’t reproduce t...
Actor John Moschitta, Jr., in a one-minute, fast-talking summary of Moby-Dick, ends by saying "and everybody dies but the fish and Ish." While that pretty much sums up what happens at the en...
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