Moby Dick

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• Moby Dick
• By Herman Melville
• Written in 1851

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Characters

• Captain Ahab
• First Mate Starbuck (Christian)
• Second Mate Stubb (Fatalist)
• Third Mate Flask (Thrill-seeker)
• Harpooner Queequeg (South Pacific Islander)
• Harpooner Daggoo (African)
• Harpooner Tashtego (Native American)
• Narrator Ishmael

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The Pequod

• Microcosm
• Small (micro)
• World (cosm)

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THE QUARTER DECK

• Ahab announces his intentions
• Pep Rally
• Communion

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Assignment for next class

• Read pp. 361-370
• Quiz (You can use notes)
• How is prophesy fulfilled?
• The Parsee will die before Ahab
• Ahab will see the Parsee (Fedallah) again
• Two Hearses (one of American wood)
• Ahab will die by hemp (rope)

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Moby Dick The Chase
The Parsee will die before Ahab Ahab will see the
Parsee (Fedallah) again Two Hearses (one of
American wood) Ahab will die by hemp (rope)
The Parsee does die before Ahab Ahab does see
the Parsee again (strapped to the whale) The
hearses are Moby Dick The Pequod Ahabs rope
gets caught around his neck.
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More Moby Stuff

• FedallahThe Parsee. Ahab has him sneaked aboard
  the Pequod.
• ZoroastrianismBelieved in Good vs. Evil.
• AhabEvil king of Israel
• IshmaelSon of Abraham and Hagar, a wanderer
• Moby DickSymbol of nature a Wall a pasteboard
  mask.
• Omens Parsees Body Sharks, Hawk,

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Herman Melville(1819-1891)
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Influences

• Born in New York to a prestigious family
• Went to sea- South Pacific
• Became friends and neighbors with Hawthorne
  (shared the same philosophy)

Herman Melville, as he appears in a much larger
mural painting from a Barnes Noble in
Flagstaff, Arizona.
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His Work

• Wrote popular travel books while at Sea- Typee
  and Omoo
• Wrote Moby Dick in 1851
• Customs inspector for money
• Billy Budd