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Moby-Dick alternates between precise, often matter-of-fact descriptions of whaling and the extravagant, almost mythic actions of Ahab and his crew. …
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As dehumanizing and oppressive as the brave new world Utopia is, the alternative in the “savage reserve” is in many …
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Toward the end of the book, the Controller Mustapha Mond sums up the benefits of living in the “brave new …
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There are no women in Moby-Dick. Whaling was of course a strictly male enterprise, but what consequences may be said …
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When Brave New World was first published in 1932, the world was plunged in depression, fascism was on the rise …
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Few of Huxley’s predictions have proven to be perfectly accurate, yet many aspects of the Utopia of Brave New World …
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Early in the voyage, Ahab tells Starbuck: “Talk not to me of blasphemy, man. I’d strike the sun if it …
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In “The Try Works,” Ishmael quotes Solomon’s statement that “the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall …
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Queequeg is one of the most intriguing characters in Moby-Dick and figures prominently in the novel’s early chapters. Ishmael describes …
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Many readers have noted the pervasive influence of Shakespeare on Melville. Of Shakespeare’s great tragic heroes—Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello—whom does …
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