In Chapter CVI, \u201cAhab\u2019s Leg,\u201d we see Captain Ahab requesting repairs on his artificial leg, since he splintered it.\u00a0 I interpret Captain Ahab\u2019s request as him wanting to be seen as a god, perfect, unscathed, unhurt and still ready for more adventure and action.\u00a0 We, as readers, also get to see much of Captain Ahab\u2019s character, as he wants to be completely independent, and wants to be free of his physical limitations; Captain Ahab becomes irate, livid and frustrated when he remembers that he is physically ill and wounded.\u00a0 In addition, I noticed other religious allusions as the novel states, \u201c[it] shall be followed by the joy-childlessness of all hell\u2019s despair; whereas, some guilty mortal miseries shall still fertilely beget to themselves an eternally progressive progeny of griefs beyond the grave; not all to hint of this\u2026\u201d (667).\u00a0 Nevertheless, Captain Ahab still tries to be left alone and did not want to be disturbed.\u00a0 He even insists on getting the ship checked for repairs.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, in Chapter CIX, \u201cAhab and Starbuck In the Cabin,\u201d we see Starbuck and Ahab converse about the acquisition of oil to help continue their journey on the seas.\u00a0 However, there is some misunderstanding between the two.\u00a0 Starbuck assumed that they were looking for more oil, but apparently Ahab is so monomaniacal that he only wants to get the White Whale.\u00a0 Ahab even dares to say, \u201cLet it leak! I\u2019m all aleak myself.\u201d\u00a0 This shows how obsessive and careless Captain Ahab can be.\u00a0 We also see Captain Ahab saying to Starbuck that, \u201cThere is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod.—-On deck!\u201d (682).\u00a0 This quote shows Captain Ahab\u2019s imperious nature and how controlling and ordering he can be.\u00a0 He quite simply proclaims himself to be the \u201clord over the Pequod\u201d (682).\u00a0 Apparently, Captain Ahab has an obsession with keeping his power over everything.\u00a0 Captain Ahab prepares to receive a well-shaped, powerful harpoon.\u00a0 This reminds me of how David prepared to finally overcome the monolithic Goliath. \u00a0In this sense, Goliath is the Biblical allusion to the White Whale in Herman Melville\u2019s Moby Dick<\/em> and Captain Ahab represents David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Chapter CVI, \u201cAhab\u2019s Leg,\u201d we see Captain Ahab requesting repairs on his artificial leg, since he splintered it.\u00a0 I interpret Captain Ahab\u2019s request as him wanting to be seen as a god, perfect, unscathed, unhurt and still ready for more adventure and action.\u00a0 We, as readers, also get to see much of Captain Ahab\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/engl177\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}