Moby Dick
Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick is not only a children’s fairy tale or simply a story for whale lovers or fisherman… it goes much deeper than that. Melville deliberately wrote Moby Dick to deliver a moral message to society. ... We see how the uncontrollable urge for revenge drives Captain Ahab to search for and hope to kill Moby Dick. Moby Dick is loosely related to the biblical story of Jonah. ... But where Jonah repented for his sins and was forgiven, Ahab did not and eventually dies while trying to strike a harpoon into Moby Dick. ... In the beginning on Moby Dick, Ishmael tries to offer a simple collection of literary excerpts mentioning whales. ... When it comes to Moby Dick himself, this limitation takes on allegorical significance. The ways of Moby Dick, like those of the Christian God, are unknowable to man, and thus trying to interpret them, as Ahab does, is inevitably futile and often fatal.