Moby Dick Innocent or Evil?
...bsessed with killing Moby, even though the whale was not attacking, but being attacked. Ahab’s lunacy is shown throughout the story. Starbuck and Ahab are looking at a map that shows all the whale’s paths, feeding, and breeding grounds, and tells when, and what kind of whales will be there. This map could lead them to thousands of whales, but Ahab puts this gigantic opportunity aside saying, “No, we are hunting for Moby Dick”. This map could make every person on the boat rich; they would not have to work another day in their lives. But Ahab is so obsessed with killing Moby he turns it all down. Additional substantiation is that at least three times throughout the story, when Ahab gets a clue as to where Moby is, the first question he asks is “Did you kill him?” This demonstrates his madness in that it would not be good enough if Moby is dead, unless Ahab kills him himself. Further confirmation of Moby’s innocence, and Ahab’s diablerie, is found when Ahab leaves a hunt of what is said to be over two hundred whales, because he gets a tip about the whereabouts of Moby Dick. Ahab is so vengeful he avers that he would “strike the sun” if it wronged him. When the men finally find Moby, Ahab literally ties himself to the whale and stabs his harpoon in and out of the whale’s flesh. One of the very few arguments opposing the ingenuo...