|
|
This is only a preview of the paper
Click here to register and get the full text.
Existing members click here to login
|
|
|
... Manifest Destiny – as a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States – defined the country’s will to grow and spread its democracy throughout the hemisphere. The doctrine revitalized a sense of “mission” or national destiny for Americans. ... New Bedford, Massachusetts, the setting of the opening scene in Moby Dick, had a fleet of over 300 whaling ships. ...
Moby Dick is a story of much higher measures carried out to contrast adventure, freedom, ideology, society, economy, nature, civilisation and democracy. ... He also does not hunt Moby Dick only for financial purposes – he urges the crew with the doubloon, but more importantly, he is to take revenge on the legendary white whale for “dismasting” his leg. Ahab’s Manifest Destiny is the voyage against evil. ... He does not listen to his crew or Captain Boomer’s warning, who was happy simply to have survived his encounter with Moby Dick. ... Ahab hoped that Fedallah’s prophetic abilities will help him in his hunt for Moby Dick, but instead, he foreshadows the death of the crew, just like Gabriel, the crazed prophet who predicts doom for anyone who threatens the white whale. ... Any whaling ship that encountered Moby Dick had suffered some kind of loss, like Enderby’s Captain Boomer, who lost his arm or Ahab, who replaced his missing leg from a whale’s jaw. ...
But what lies beneath the final battle against Moby Dick at the equator and the death of Ahab and the crew? ... Both Ahab and Moby Dick were superiors, each in their worlds.
Approximate Word count = 1303
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
|
|
|
|