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The Character of Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby-Dick |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / LITERATURE AND CHARACTER |
| Author: James W. Tuttleton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 5,112 Words, 30,493 Characters |
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For those who have not read the book, or who read it some time ago, it may be briefly summarized as follows. On Christmas Day in 18--, an American whaling ship, the Pequod, so named after a near-extinct tribe of American Indians, sets sail on a long worldwide voyage, of perhaps up to five years. It is in search of whales and the spermaceti oil they yield. The ship is captained by Ahab, a moody, capricious, and dictatorial man of advanced years who bears a scar that threads "its way out from among his grey hairs and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing," a "slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish" stretching "from crown to sole" that "came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea." FOOTN...
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...saith the Lord."n
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FOOTNOTE: *See Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or the Whale, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newbery Library, 1988), chap. 28, p. 123. Because of the great number of editions of Moby-Dick, quotations will hereafter be cited parenthetically in the text, by chapter number.
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