Moby Dick, the White Whale An interpretation. Points to ponder 1. The five conflicts: man - man, God, society, nature, and himself 2. The big white whale.

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Moby Dick, the White Whale An interpretation

Points to ponder 1. The five conflicts: man - man, God, society, nature, and himself 2. The big white whale ( an archetype, a brother, a super-natural power, a teacher, a destroyer of human will and determination) 3. Ahab ( a sea captain, a leader, a tragic figure) 4. Ishmael ( a wanderer, a fortune teller, a recorder and observer of human tragedy) 5. The beauty of human tragedy--- any human hero is an Ahab, and any great human act is, to some extent. tragic.

Man and water

Our powerful brother created by God one day older than us

Melville’s day

The conflict between the brothers

We will be punished if we have killed our brother

Brother killing brother

Ahab in the novel Ahab in the movie

Ishmael and his mother

Jesus Christ and his mother

Cultural products of Moby Dick by H. Melville

The super-natural power God The human fate The testing stone The unknown difficulties To be, or not to be, that’s a question