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1、Moby Dick,(1851),Herman Melville,About The Author,Herman Melville was the celebrated,author of several big 19th-century novelists,write about the sea. Moby-Dick (1851), the,story of the fanatical Captain Ahab and his,hunt for the great white whale of the title, is,now considered as one of the classi

2、cs of,American literature. Melvilles other novels,include Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Billy,Budd (published posthumously in 1924).,Melville published little after 1860 and it wasnt,until the 1900s that he gained his reputation as,one of the early Americas great authors.,?,Ishmael,Queequeg,Main ch

3、aracters,sailor,harpooner,Pequod,whaleship,Ahab,captain,Starbuck,the first mate,?,星巴克,(Starbucks),：得名,Herman,Melville,的小说,Moby Dick,中的人物,名称，书中爱喝咖啡的大副就叫,Starbuck,。,Plot,Ishmael yearns for a whaling adventure,Meets Queequeg,Sign with the whaleship Pequod,Captain Ahab appears,Only purpose of Ahab is ki

4、lling Moby Dick,Starbuck argues with Ahab,Several sinister omens appear,Find Moby Dick,Two fights between Moby Dick & the crew,First one: Moby Dick escapes,Second one: All the crew die except Ishmael,Plot Summary,Captain Ahab hates,Moby Dick-,“the white devil”,-because he lost a leg to the white,wha

5、le in a fight. Now Ahab, the captain,of a whaling ship, can only think of one,thing: Find Moby Dick and kill him,Many of the other sailors on the,ship dont know about their captains,plan. Ishmael is a young sailor and,this is his first whaling job. He and,his new friend, Queequeg, sail with,Captain

6、Ahab on this exciting-and,dangerous-trip. Also on the ship are,Starbuck, Virgin, and other whalers,from different countries.,Ahab is,prepared to,sacrifice,everything,including his,life, the lives of,his crew,members, and,even his ship,to find and,destroy his,nemesis.,In the end, the,captain and his,

7、all “treasure”,become the,sacrifice to,Moby Dick, and,the whale also,died.,The sole survivor is the speaker:,Ishmael. He hide himself in the coffin,prepared to Queequeg when the ship is,destroyed, and saved by another ship.,So, he left this story to us.,It symbolizes the worlds different cultures,mi

8、xed and intertwined, from a variety of the,world as a patchwork of linen cloth, from,different cultures, races, backgrounds,interwoven, interdependent people together,interdependent, different from the novel,State of the crew is the most vivid,expression.,The white whale is one of the main,focuses o

9、f the story. He symbolizes,chaos and uncontrollability. Moby Dick,is also a symbol of evil. Yet, being of,the color white he take on a Godly-like,role representing the power of nature.,To Ahab, obviously he is evil, but,metephorically he represents his,satisfing revenge.,Moby Dick also bears out int

10、erpretations not tied,down to specific characters. In its inscrutable,silence and mysterious habits, for example, the,White Whale can be read as an allegorical,representation of an unknowable God. As a,profitable commodity, it fits into the scheme of,white economic expansion and exploitation in the,

11、nineteenth century. As a part of the natural world,it represents the destruction of the environment,by such hubristic expansion.,symbolism,Ahabs Pipers,The pipe that Captain Ahab smokes,throughout the voyage represents,happiness in Ahabs life. Once he,tosses it over the edge of the ship in,his pursu

12、it to find Moby Dick, all his,happiness is lost.,The Pequod,The ship that the whaling crew sails on is a,symbol of doom. It is painted a gloomy,black and covered in whale teeth and,bones, literally bristling with the mementos,of violent death. It is, in fact, marked for,death. Adorned like a primiti

13、ve coffin, the,Pequod becomes one.,Queequegs Coffin,Queequegs coffin alternately symbolizes life and,death. Queequeg has it built when he is,seriously ill, but when he recovers, it becomes,a chest to hold his belongings and an emblem,of his will to live. He perpetuates the,knowledge tattooed on his body by carving it,onto the coffins lid. The coffin further comes to,symbolize life, in a morbid way, when it,replaces the Pequods life buoy. When the,Pequod sinks, the coffi