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The Pequod has several gams at sea. Define a “gam” and discuss the importance of any one gam that occurs …
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Moby-Dick help me with homework: Discuss the role of diversity as it affects the theme of friendship
1. Discuss the role of diversity as it affects the theme of friendship in the novel. 2. Consider the characters …
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Melville wrote Moby-Dick during a period when Emerson, Thoreau, and others were developing a Transcendentalist philosophy and extolling the spiritual …
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If you read the book earlier in life – say in high school or college – compare the experience of …
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In “Stubb’s Supper,” Stubb instructs “Fleece,” the ship’s aged black cook, to preach to the sharks feasting noisily on the …
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Talk about Huxley’s use of the narrator. Does the fact that Huxley’s vision was impaired for part of his life …
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Huxley wrote many other books, yet this is his most popular and most enduring. What is it about this book …
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When John first starts reading Shakespeare, he discovers that the words make his emotions “more real” – they even make …
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One contemporary reviewer complained that Moby-Dick was an “intellectual chowder of romance, philosophy, natural history, fine writing, good feeling, bad …
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In many ways, the main characters of the book are cartoon figures – Helmholtz Watson the alienated superman, Bernard Marx …
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