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Ahab is God, man, nature, and cyborg warrior. ...Is he not a cyborg? Huh. Imagine that. Click on this video to find out what Ahab is actually all about. Ten bucks says it’s hokey-pokey related.


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Thank you We sneak Moby dick may have allah shmoop

00:11

Okay so let's drill into a half for your lovely

00:14

how does have any function in the novel Who is

00:17

he Where does he come from A good relationship with

00:20

god and man in nature in this whole kind of

00:22

crazy angry faces Yeah i love that You asked what

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his relationship is with god and man in nature because

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they have is god and he is man And he

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is nature hump the way we learned about a habits

00:34

through metaphors he's always described as something else he's described

00:39

as a king you know from the bible that king

00:41

a had that's where he gets his name was this

00:44

king from the bible who wanted something really but he's

00:47

in the jezebel chapters he wanted something so badly he

00:49

did anything he could to get it It was terrible

00:51

And then he ends up regretting it and we're like

00:53

okay yeah have wants something pretty bad lease Is he

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going to regret it So they have is a king

00:58

on they have is also compared to god and jesus

01:01

he himself says like who is above me I don't

01:05

know the exact quote But he basically thinks he's the

01:07

highest of the high and there's just a lot of

01:10

imagery throughout that comparison to god into jesus he's compared

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to the devil So i got the devil again We

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see melville's explorations religion um he's compared to a ship

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like words like dismasted are used to describe him as

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a person and he is compared to a whale Actually

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you know when moby dick took his leg off he

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now has like this whale bone peg leg And so

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he actually is like part whale So uh in the

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end no matter what they have is compared to the

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most important feature of his character is that he is

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unswervingly devoted to getting moby dick He wants to prove

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that no matter what god says no matter what the

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fates say no matter what the world tells him and

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his you know shipmates he's going to get this male

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and he's gonna find his his white whale And again

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we have this just fierce freewill trying to fight against

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any sort of predestination Who is a happy What is

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a halves relationship with god man and nature What does 00:02:21.5 --> [endTime] a have represent in the novel No

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