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Ya ya, go on, have a laugh, I know what you all are thinking. So I give you a spoiler alert in the very first line, Moby’s Dick is so not a book about the dick of someone named Moby. I mean, really, to look at your gloomy face now after you know this, ahh must be a sight.
Oh and to make it worse, Moby’s Dick is actually the name of a shark. Hehe, bet you won't be thinking of any Dicks now. Alright, there is one penis scene, you win, but it's so not related for the record. However, don't let these genital puns stop you from going further and explore this great Seaworld adventure book.
Introduction
Book’s Name - Moby’s Dick
Author’s Name - Herman Melville
Genre - Adventure fiction, epic
Language - English
Synopsis - Spoiler Alert!
The book is a story about Captain Ahab’s hunt for revenge for Moby Dick, the white whale who bit off his leg. The narrator guiding us through these explorations is a common sailor called Ishmael. Ishmael starts out by telling his own story as he prepares to escape the damp and drizzly November in his soul by going to sea.
He befriends the Pacific Islander Queequeg and joins Ahab’s crew aboard the Pequod. Ahab, who Ishmael and his friend Queequeg soon learn is losing his mind over revenge. Starbuck, Ahab’s first-mate, recognizes this problem too and is the only one throughout the novel to voice his disapproval of Ahab’s increasingly obsessive behavior.
The “Pequod” sets sail, and the crew is soon informed that this journey will be unlike their other whaling missions: this time, Ahab intends to hunt and kill the beastly Moby Dick no matter the cost.
About the Book
‘Moby Dick’ is Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, ‘Moby-Dick’ was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was even out of print at one time.
We see Melville using references and styles of Plato and Shakespeare. With one chapter written as a playscript, we also see Ishmael singing about whale oil in epic style and with chapters named such as ‘cistern and buckets’, which might look uninteresting but comprise the soul of the book and make it more interesting.
About the Author
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period was born in August 1819. He was born in New York City, to some merchants who died, leaving him in financial straits. He was a sailor who did great in the literary movement of romanticism as well.
He also wrote on the American Civil war, and many poetries, stories of the sea but Moby Dick was one of the most successful books which were recognized after he died from Cardiovascular diseases in 1891.
Theme Involved
Moby’s Dick is a book of sea adventures that features pirates, typhoons, high-speed chases, and giant squids, which shows it isn't just some conventional sea adventure.
Moby Dick was published in 1851, at the time when the United States whaling industry was at its height. This hunt for whales decimated the world's whale population and we see the ugly side of that industry in Moby’s Dick which shows his clear sailing experience.
We see diverse branches of knowledge like zoology, gastronomy, law, economics, mythology, and teaching from a range of religious and cultural traditions. A book that's so wide it has something for everyone. Readers have found religious and political allegory, existential inquiry, social satire, and representation of American Imperialism. industrial relation and racial conflict.
Famous Quotes
“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
The Bottom Line
Moby Dick is an interest-piquing book and Melville invites his reader to leap into the unknown to join him on the hunt for the ungraspable phantom of life. And then, of course, I am sure you've seen this book's name over and over but never really knew what it is about. So I cleared it once and for all, read this amazing sea adventure and I've had it now with the dick puns, gosh!!!!.
My rating for this book - 4 out of 5
You can buy a copy of this book - Moby Dick
Written By - Ashish Joshi
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