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What do you make of Stubb’s believing that Fedallah is the devil in disguise? At the end of ch. 73, …
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What is the purpose of the monkey-rope? How does it function as a metaphor for Ishmael? How does the message …
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Each of the other meetings with other ships reflects in some way upon the situation aboard the Pequod, presenting either …
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What is Ahab’s attitude toward the successful whale kill in ch. 64? We have already seen how Ishmael breaks down …
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What color is the sperm whale that Stubb kills (p. 308 [230]). How do you interpret the “pipe-smoking” images in …
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Why is “the great Leviathan” the “one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last”? (p. 289 …
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This is the longest chapter in the book and the only one Melville published separately, before Moby-Dick. How does the …
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These are the first two of nine meetings with other ships. What is their function? Do they help structure the …
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How do you interpret the comparative disappearance of Queequeg in Ishmael’s narrative, given their intimacy at the beginning of the …
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How does ch. 43 move the narrative forward? What does it add to the novel? In ch. 44, where is …
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