Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick
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Call me Shmoop...er, we mean, Ishmael. It’s time to catch a whale. ...Just kidding, we’ll read about it instead. The WWF told us we can’t do reenactments of Moby-Dick anymore.
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What happens in moby dick Moby dick starts with the
now world famous line Call me ishmael Ishmael is going
to be the narrator mostly for the rest of king
The basic structure of it is he is a depressed
young man living in new england and tuck it hey
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
pea quad under the helm The insane captain A hat
who leads them to chase the white whale Moby dick
all across the world on it ends poorly for everyone
Except ishmael is the only one alive The end of
the story got it So original jaws maybe you're exactly
you all right What makes moby dick great Like what
Wide re read this thing and torture are teenagers to
make them read it as well right What makes moby
dick a classic Moby dick has a lot going on
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
the wrong way of elected leaders What happens in moby 00:02:55.835 --> [endTime] dick What makes moby dick a classic