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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 898 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Moby Dick
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The novel ‘Moby Dick’ is the story of how Ishmael the narrator came to set sail on a fateful whaling voyage. He travels to Nantucket, where he visits the docks to find a ship; he discovers the Pequod. As Ishmael and his friend Queequeg make their way to board the ship, they meet a haggard looking, wild-eyed man who calls himself Elijah. He warns them against sailing with the Pequod,
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are wrecked and some people are dead, Ahab still remains focused on killing Moby Dick.
The soliloquys, speeches, and words uttered by Ahab and his actions are used to shpae the perception of obsession. The reader is left with the knowledge that when a person is obsessed, all their attention is focused towards the object of the obsession, that nothing else matters and they are even willing to die in the pursuit of the obsession.
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