Moby-Dick: Free Response Essay DISCLAIMER: None of the opinions expressed below have been proven factual, and so are not to be considered 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, essentially, is the story of the crazy Captain Ahab and his quest to defeat the sperm whale, Moby Dick. In chapters twenty-eight through …showed first 75 words of 842 total…

…showed last 75 words of 842 total…God-figures, and he would be the God of the Pequod (a lost tribe, which could be another message Melville was expressing through this novel), then Melville would be saying that the composite God-figure is a paranoid, hurbus-nemesis archetype! This is actually very comparable to Yahweh, for was it not a paranoid mind that scripted in the Bible that those who followed other belief systems would burn in Hell for eternity for disobeying the Almighty God? ...