He knowingly "murders"(depends on your view) the crew. He also challenges the gods saying "I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemeberer". Ahab in my opinion is a great man but many say he is evil for ignoring vivid signs of certain death, he was a fatalist.
Both were Quakers, shocking enough, but so many other similarities--like obsession and monomania.
Type your answer here... Ishmael,Ahab,and Starbuck.
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In "Moby Dick," one ship, the Pequod, is destroyed.
There was a famous rogue bull whale called "Mocha Dick," named after the island Mocha off the coast of Chile. Melville may have changed the name to "Moby" because he was writing a story about a friend named Tobias ("Toby") at the same time he was writing Moby-Dick.
There are 135 chapters in the book "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
There are 1,946 pages with a total of 135 chapters in Moby Dick (BIG book).
The AR points for Moby Dick can vary depending on the specific edition and publisher. Generally, Moby Dick has around 38-40 AR points.
There are many who debate this. Some believe the name refers to the Whales place of origin the isles of mocha and dik. However Melville did not name his whale Mocha Dick and thank god for that could you imagine all the contemporary papers that would have been wirtten on the white man's fear of the African American phaleus. I will state the answer is more obvious. Moby is simply from word mob a shortening of mobile a moving organized unit and and dick which origins mean powerful. Moby Dick is simply moving power.
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville contains approximately 206,052 words and around 655,583 characters.
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