Moby Dick
Conflicting Views Throughout Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick, the white whale is not only depicted as an unexplainable force of nature, but is also given an almost divine quality, constantly compared to God, and as the people fear God, they also fear Moby Dick. ... It is apparent that Moby Dick is the personification of the wrath of God. One of the first remarks made by Ahab about the white whale was, “‘…it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now…it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day! ... Furthermore, the reader gets an idea of how powerful Moby Dick truly is when we are given a description of Ahab’s dismemberment, “…then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad” (Melville 177).