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Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

has been diverted from its supernatural end through the fault of the first parents" (The Vatican, 1986). This means that man is bo...

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

to be the so-called "Corinthian Gate," and that this was the place where "the crippled man had been placed so that he could beg f...

Kali or present age (The Hindu temple). The Hindu temple is a public shrine where the presence of the gods is still felt, though t...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

of men. Men, primarily those men on the ship, are men who are likely "dangerous to encounter" on an ordinary day. They are perhaps...

trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...

This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...