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Comparing Henry David Thoreau And Herman Melville's Writings
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Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville focused their writings on how
man was affected by nature. They translated their philosophies though both the
portrayal of their protagonist and their own self exploration. In Moby Dick,
Melville writes about Ahab's physical and metaphysical struggle over the ....
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....n Melville illustrates man's quest to attain the
supreme power of God through the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Captain Ahab is
obsessed with the desire to destroy Moby Dick, his nemesis, which is truly
symbolic of man's overwhelming quest to control and conquer nature. Melville
depicts Ahab as an evil, egotistical human whose willingness to combat the
forces of nature represents man's failure to understand his place in the
universe. Melville uses Ishmael to voice his philosophies which portray Ah.... |
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