Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick

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to be the narrator mostly for the rest of king

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Decides way to cure his depression would be to get

on a whaling ship So he goes to do that

And for three years he spends his time on the

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all across the world on it ends poorly for everyone

Except ishmael is the only one alive The end of

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and it should if it's nearly hundred pages Herman melville

wass writing at a very specific time in american history

And eighteen Fifty The country's seemed like it was on

the verge of going anywhere And melville wass both excited

and a little bit worried by this suspect going anywhere

Meaning it could become a french protectorate It could be

owned by mexico it could be a shooting gallery She

was certain degree yeah that in western expansion had already

for the most part been fully developed At that point

we had sailed the seas We had seemed to have

conquered everything that there was a conker So he was

concerned about where we were going to go from there

And captain have sort of represents the terrible ways that

that could get Melville was definitely worried about whether who

we choose as our leaders who we choose to follow

As in american society captain ahab sort of represents the

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