Consider Moby-Dick as ethical instruction regarding behavior, obligation, observance, faith, prayer, character, conscience, or spirituality. What advice and discipline does …

What use does Melville make of the qualities of three mates, the prudent Starbuck, the indifferent Stubb, and the mediocre …

What is the meaning of the ship-name Pequod?  Apart from providing narrative interludes, what is the importance of meetings or …

Is Ahab justified in seeking personal revenge for the deep harm done to him by Moby Dick? Is Melville interested …

Is Queequeg a more mature and more profound version of Tommo’s Typeean companions?  What is the significance of the monkey …

Is Ishmael a more mature and more profound version of Redburn and Tommo as adventurer, narrator, and critic? Why is …

Do we see the whale as God (and if so, of which religious denomination), as the devil or evil incarnate, …

What are the traces in Moby-Dick of Melville’s apparent reading of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Irving, Cooper, Carlyle, Poe, …

The Pequod has several gams at sea. Define a “gam” and discuss the importance of any one gam that occurs …

1. Discuss the role of diversity as it affects the theme of friendship in the novel. 2. Consider the characters …