Help him find his missing son who was on a whale boat
Foreshadowing
Tashtego was the one who asked captain Ahab. He said if the white whale was named Moby Dick.
Starbuck
The first mate, Starbuck: "Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick - but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?"
The captain of the Rachel asked Captain Ahab to help search for and rescue their missing crew members who were lost at sea.
Ahab was a powerful king in biblical times, and Ahab was a captain in fiction.
The literary term used in this instance is foreshadowing. The surgeon's warning about the danger of Moby Dick hints at the conflict and consequences that may arise from Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the whale.
Captain Ahab was the captain of the Pequod in the novel Moby-Dick. He is on a quest for revenge against the white whale, Moby Dick, which leads to the tragic end of the ship and its crew.
The antagonist of the novel Moby Dick is Captain Ahab, the obsessed and vengeful captain of the whaling ship Pequod who seeks revenge on the white whale, Moby Dick, for taking his leg during a previous encounter.
Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, the ship going out to hunt Moby-Dick, the white whale.
In the 1956 movie adaptation of Moby Dick, Gregory Peck plays Captain Ahab.
Captain Ahab is the character who hunted Moby Dick in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.