Essays Tagged: "Moby Dick"

Bartleby The Scrivener and Herman Melville's life Good

oning for keeping Bartleby and for the sympathy he shows for Bartleby. After the general failure of Moby Dick, at least in Melville's time, he immediately wrote Pierre, which was a deeply personal nov ... absence. Melville had reached the prime of his popularity early in his career, so when he published Moby Dick, his career was already in decline. His disappointment was only to increase as his career ...

(2 pages) 166 2 3.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville's response to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Melville in particular was moved by Hawthorne's intellectual stimulation and inspired him to write Moby-Dick, a dramatic novel that has proved to be one of the greatest in American Literature. Moby-D ... lville concerning subject matter and themes for him to write. However, the most important impact on Moby-Dick was the correspondence between the two writers. Hawthorne's influence proved to be a facto ...

(5 pages) 99 1 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Herman Melville

lishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm inPittsburg, massachustettes.1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 StanwixMelville is born.1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper madea ... blisheduntil 1924. Sepember 28: dies.1924 Billy Budd is Published.Accomplishments1) Wrote the novel Moby-Dick.2) Was in the U.S. Navy.3) Wrote numerous famous poems.4) Wrote many other novels like Pie ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Scarlet Letter" How would the characters see the white whale? Mentiones also Melville's Moby Dick

In Melville's Moby Dick our narrator, Ishmael, has a unique view on the great white whale. '...all these are but s ... white can mean (i.e. the horror of an albino, or beauty of a white steed etc.) and proceeds to say Moby Dick is all of these things, 'Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?' He is esentially asking us 'if ... , although it was a different kind of intelligence, he is wise enough to know Ahab's obsession with Moby Dick is wrong and dangerous. He too is passionate in his work, he is a realist who thinks that ...

(4 pages) 46 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Physical attributes and atmosphere of Galapagos Islands. Speaks of Mellville and Darwin

own for the theory of evolution, wrote for the purpose of science; Herman Mellville, best known for Moby Dick, for the purpose of entertainment. The audience intended, the tone of the author, and the ...

(4 pages) 39 0 4.3 Sep/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Nature as Reflected in American Literature. Speaks of work by Plato, Twain, Melville, Bryant, andThoreau

merican art, especially Literature. Specific examples from American literature including the works Moby Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Walden, and 'To a Waterfowl' can show how American a ... es like the Power in 'Waterfowl.' Herman Melville illustrates the ambiguity of nature in his novel Moby Dick by representing certain evil elements of human existence with comparable elements in natur ...

(4 pages) 130 0 3.5 Jun/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Characters and Plot of "Moby Dick" by By Herman Melville

The Characters and PlotThere are numerous characters in Moby Dick, but only a few of themhave any impact on the story. A common sailor named Ishmael is then ... Ahab, the one-leggedcommander of the whaling ship Pequod. Ahab has sworn to kill thegigantic whale Moby Dick, who took away his leg. Starbuck is thefirst mate of the Pequod. Queequeg, Tashtego, and D ... . One day, hecalls the crew before him. He tells them that the sole mission ofthe Pequod is to kill Moby Dick. Moby Dick is a gigantic sperm whalewith a crooked jaw and a deformed forehead. He has nev ...

(6 pages) 120 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Critical Analysis of "Moby Dick" by Melville

"Moby Dick is biographic of Melville in the sense that it discloses every nook and cranny of his imag ... oses every nook and cranny of his imagination." (Humford 41) This paper is a psychological study of Moby Dick. Moby Dick was written out of Melville's person experiences.Moby Dick is a story of the ad ... Ishmael. Ishmael is a lonely, alienated individual who wants to see the "watery part of the world." Moby Dick begins with the main character, Ishmael, introducing himself with the line "Call Me Ishmae ...

(9 pages) 188 0 3.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Melville

Herman Melville never received hardly anycredit for any of his works. Melville wrote such novels as Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd.Melville wrote about things that he knew about. He wrote about his own exp ... es, of farms, prairies, rivers, lakes, and forest recur as a counterpoint tothe barren sea. Also in Moby-Dick Melville tells how he was a 'Vagabond' on the ErieCanal, which was the way Melville return ...

(9 pages) 56 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville

ntroduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This was Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrou ... orne, whose dark view of human nature coincided with Melville's, encouraged him to press ahead with Moby Dick. This book, Melville said, was 'broiled in hellfire.' Against the background of a whaling ...

(2 pages) 60 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Moby Dick and its Biblical Allusions

"Biblical Aspect of Moby Dick"4/5/02Moby Dick is a novel filled with many biblical allusions, and I feel strongly that t ... posedly Sarai, his wife, was infertile) and ever since Isaac was born, Ishmael was shunned. Like in Moby Dick, Ishmael was looked down upon from the beginning because he didn't have the history that o ... always different from everyone, and he looks at everything in an interrogative way, so he thinks of Moby Dick as a holy mysterious creature while Capt. Ahab thinks Moby Dick is pure evil.Moby Dick is ...

(5 pages) 12355 0 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Moby Dick.

Whiteness of the Whale2. What makes Ishmael swear an oath to kill the white whale? DoesIshmael see Moby Dick the same way which Ahab sees him? Why is thewhiteness of the whale terrifying?We know that ... hiteness of the whale terrifying?We know that Ahab has long before this story taken an oath to kill Moby Dick, but why have Ishmael and the crew of the ship taken up this oath too? And what exactly is ...

(4 pages) 97 1 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Herman Melville's now famous story "Bartleby the Scrivener". Melville wrote this, just after he wrote Moby Dick.

wards the end of his declining career. Melville, wrote Bartleby after he wrote his now famous book "Moby Dick". However, in Melville's time Moby Dick was not the hit it is today. Perhaps in Melville's ... is absence. Melville had reached his prime of his literary career very early. When he had published Moby Dick, his decline had already begun. Bartleby started off to be a successful worker, but soon d ...

(4 pages) 161 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is called Ahab as a tragic hero. How Ahab is represented as a tragic hero throughout the novel and how he brings the story into its tragic conclusion.

y courage and ability, who is admired for his qualities and achievements. The antagonist to Ahab is Moby Dick, the white hale whom Ahab pursues, leading to the death of himself and his crew. He could ...

(1 pages) 35 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The connections between Bartleby and Herman Melville's life. Title: Bartleby. by Herman Melville.

winning much praise and accolade. He then started "preferring" to write novels that were more like Moby Dick, that is, novels that were more meditative and thought provoking, rather than romances. Me ...

(1 pages) 73 0 3.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Moby Dick:Herman Melville questions, and analyzes, the connections between Melville, Ahab, and modern religion

Moby-Dick: Free Response EssayDISCLAIMER: None of the opinions expressed below have been proven fact ... ed as such. They are merely the conclusions drawn after reading and class discussions, nothing more.Moby Dick is a novel of adventure, philosophical inquiry, and critique of society. The story, essent ... story, essentially, is the story of the crazy Captain Ahab and his quest to defeat the sperm whale, Moby Dick. In chapters twenty-eight through thirty-one, one is led to believe that Ahab is very much ...

(3 pages) 47 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Revenge caused by injury and it's consequences in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"

n referring to said quote above, it should be "put to death." Such is the case in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. In this story, a crazed captain named Ahab leads his crew of whale hunters on a suicide v ... tain named Ahab leads his crew of whale hunters on a suicide voyage in search for the elusive whale Moby Dick who severed his leg to the point of amputation. Ahab's true intentions hidden from the clu ...

(12 pages) 49 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Moby Dick

"Moby Dick is biographic of Melville in the sense that it discloses everynook and cranny of his imagi ... closes everynook and cranny of his imagination." (Humford 41) This paper is apsychological study of Moby Dick. Moby Dick was written out of Melville'sperson experiences. Moby Dick is a story of the ad ... Ishmael. Ishmael is a lonely, alienated individual who wants to seethe "watery part of the world." Moby Dick begins with the main character,Ishmael, introducing himself with the line "Call Me Ishmael ...

(8 pages) 70 0 4.4 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Moby Dick - An example of how one mans obsession of getting revenge can drive a man mad and even turn deadly.

Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville in1851, which was first called "The Whale". The name "Mocha ... ished in many 1839 and was infamous among whalers for its violent attacks on ships and their crews. Moby Dick is based on facts that Herman Melville obtained in his own experiences at sea. This story ... lls how one man's obsession of getting revenge can drive a man mad and even turn deadly.In the book Moby Dick, Captain Ahab seeks to get his revenge on a whale that took his leg. He becomes obsessed a ...

(1 pages) 21 0 1.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Naturalism Analysis Through "Ethan Frome" and "Moby Dick"

Edith Wharton, known especially for her work, Ethan Frome, and Herman Melville, whose masterpiece, Moby Dick, has been a best seller for years. These authors tried as hard as they could to portray li ... ver. This is a perfect example of naturalism in Ethan Frome.        In Melville's Moby Dick, naturalism is used in a whole new way. The root word, nature, is used throughout the book ...

(2 pages) 20 0 1.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers