Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Moby dick

-      Herman Melville

      
        I have studied this text in my graduation. here I am sharing my short review of the novel.
   
        Herman Melville has quit his education and joined sailing and he has included his various experiences by writing two books “Typee” and “Omaa” both the books got success.

       In 1850, he was busy in writing a book, which as per him was “a romance of adventure founded upon certain wild legends in the southern sperm whale fishes” this book has published in London as “Moby Dick” and in New York as “The Whale”.

       In “Moby Dick” a novel, Captain Ahab wants to kill the white whale, which he calls Moby Dick. He had lost his one leg in encounter with Moby Dick. He wanted to take revenge with the whale. In his revenge he has involved innocent people and all have died at the end. The narrator of the story is Ishmael. He is the only survivor at the end. In this story, we can consider Moby Dick as a holy white fish and also as nature. Ahab has first harmed the nature and nature has given him a punishment by taking his one leg. The revenge of Ahab was with nature, which leads him to death. As nature can produce us and also destroy us.

       This novel can be compared with Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and The Sea”. Both have two great fishes. In “Moby Dick”, the white whale gives punishment to harm the nature and in “The Old Man and The Sea” the fish has presented as the pride and an honest fighter which died after the battle.  We can observe nature in different way in both the texts.