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Moby Dick trata del conflicto entre el capitán Ahab, patrón del ballenero Pequod, y la gran ballena blanca que le arrancó la pierna a la altura de la rodilla.
Ahab, ávido de venganza, se lanza con toda su tripulación a una desesperada búsqueda de su enemigo.
La obra sobrepasa en mucho la aventura y se convierte en una alegoría sobre el mal incomprensible representado por la ballena, un monstruo de las profundidades, que ataca y destruye lo que se pone en su camino, así como el capitán Ahab, que representa la maldad absurda y obstinada, que sostiene una venganza personal y arrastra a la muerte inútil a muchos inocentes.
Utilizando las imágenes de su larga experiencia como marinero, es como Melville logra escribir Moby Dick.
La ambigüedad con la que se juzgan el bien y el mal hace de esta novela una heredera de La Odisea de Homero, o incluso de La Divina Comedia de Dante.
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Group project goes wrong because the leader is way too into whales.funnily enough, that's happened to me in real life
I really hate it when I can't connect with some of the greatest works of art. Moby Dick is sadly one of these!I really tried to enjoy it, but couldn't! It's one of the very few classics which bore me to death. In my opinion, there's very little development when it comes to the characters and the story-line itself. I expected a lot from the author, especially that the book is thick. I told myself here's a story that's going to keep me entertained for a while, but instead I only found an annoyingly massive amount of fishery technicalities. A flat bulk of information to fill the chapters so that the real story can be rewritten in no more than a quarter of the actual number of pages. What bugs me up about this is the uselessness of such details in connection with the direction in which the story moves. The reader could perfectly do without most of that massive amount of waling fishery details! Besides, the characters are mostly flat. There's neither will nor power of will directing their steps and guiding their actions. Take the narrator as an instance. He's a passive observer of everything; merely a man relating his inexistence in the tale. Ahab is another in spite of all his depicted mightiness which remains but empty words. What is he if not simply a stubborn, half-mad, old captain directing a set of dummies who are so flat and two dimensional that I can't even attempt to put them to scrutiny. One thing I know for sure, I am never going to read that book again as I am already giving it away to any student in need of a free copy! And apart from the occasional beauty of its prose and the images which come to the forth every now and then, I regret spending so much time reading it.