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A Critical Analysis Of Moby Dick

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  Total Pages: 9.19
  Total Words: 2298
  Total Characters: 11150
  Number of Sentences: 162


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  Words per Sentences: 14.19
  Characters per Words: 4.85


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 67.34
  Fog Scale Level: 9.96
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.39  

A Critical Analysis of Moby Dick


          “Moby Dick is biographic of Melville in the sense that it discloses every nook and cranny of his imagination.” (Humford 41) This paper is a psychological study of Moby Dick.  Moby Dick was written out of Melville’s person experiences.  
     Moby Dick is a story of the adventures a person named Ishmael.  Ishmael is a lonely, alienated individual who wants to see the “watery part of the world.”  Moby Dick begins with the main character, Ishmael, introducing himself with the line “Call Me Ishmael.” (Melville 1)  Ishmael tells the reader about his background and creates a depressed mood for the reader. Call me Ishmael.  "Some years ago-nevermind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." (Melville 1)  Ishmael tells the reader about his journeys through various towns such as New Bedford, Nankantuket.  Eventually while in Nankantuket, Ishmael signed up for a whaling voyage on the Pequod.  The Pequod was the whaling boat Ishmael sailed on where such characters as Queequeq, Starbuck, and the captain of the ship, Ahab, all journeyed together.
     Not long once at sea, the captain of the ship, Ahab reveals his plan to hunt down a white whale named Moby Dick. Ahab was veteran sailor, a man that had a heart of stone.  Ahab had a personal grudge against Moby Dick.  Moby Dick was responsible for taking off Ahab’s leg in a previous voyage. Ahab’s plan was essentially an unauthorized takeover, what the whaling company had not in mind.  Ahab was very irrational and ludicrous; his plan seals the fate for himself and the crew of the Pequod.  In the tragic ending of Moby Dick, all of the characters die except for Ishmael. Ishmael survived Moby Dick’s attack of the ship with the help of a coffin that his close friend Queequeq built.  Ishmael of Moby Dick  was a special character because he closely relates to the auth...

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