Captain Ahab Revenge Quotes

Two symbols that relate to Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick are the dents on the deck and the whale. The deck is a symbol of captain Ahab in the way that they both have dents, the deck physically has dents from Ahab’s peg, while Ahab himself has dents in the way that he lost his leg to Moby-Dick and now has to have a peg to walk on because of Moby-Dick biting his leg off. ”But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark. And, so full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the mainmast and now binnacle, you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him, indeed, that

The connection between Christianity, the bible, and Moby Dick is a clear one as we have seen earlier on. Because of this connection, it can be understood that Ahab’s death and Ishmael’s survival through the coffin was also foreshadowed in the bible. Ahab believes he is a warrior of God and that he is somehow commanded to help rid the world of evil. The fact that he thinks he can help God fight evil is certainly a little insane, but it is important that we see that desire as a part of his motivation. He legitimizes his quest for the whale with his claim that he is “gifted with the high perception” (226). He believes that he is able to see truths that other men cannot, and this belief both inspires his hunt and allows him to reconcile to himself all the things he does as it is all for a divine cause. In particular, Ahab believes that this high perception has allowed him to see that “all evil…where visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick” (247). To Ahab, the whale is the embodiment of worldly evil, so he believes that by attacking Moby Dick, he can rid the world of its greatest woes. This desire to cleanse the world of evil is a Christian view and Ahab makes it clear that such inspiration drives him all the way to the end. In his famous “Quarter-Deck” speech, he says,

In Moby Dick there is no clear protagonist nor villain. It could be argued Ahab is a victim of his own obsession rather than Moby Dick is the obvious target, or I could be said that Ahab is the villain, Ahab is not present until later in the book. At first it is only his name that is mentioned, then a just story, then an unseen existence, alone in his cabin. Melville uses the lack of attendance to present Ahab as a character whom represents the fading belief in

Ahab shows how evil grows and manifests inside him as time persists. Throughout the story of Moby Dick, Ahab starts off as a normal moral person,but as the story goes on and his vengeance grows Ahab becomes maniacal. After a previous confrontation with the white whale, Ahab loses his leg. Justlike Roger Chillingworth from The Scarlet Letter, he grows hungry forpayback. Ahab gets so wrapped up in slaying the beast that stole his leg thathe forgets about his home in Nantucket.

Captain Ahab sights Moby Dick from afar and continues his hot pursuit on the White Whale. For three days, a relentless chase occurs because of Ahab’s desire for revenge. The indomitable whale continually destroys boat after boat. During the latter days of the struggle, the whale finally attacks the Pequod, plunging the ship to the bottom pits of the ocean. Determined to reach his final goal, the captain makes a last ditch effort and launches his harpoon towards Moby Dick. Ironically, Ahab’s harpoon catches around his neck and strangles him to death. Obviously determined to avenge his leg, the Captain causes his own downfall through his own desire for retribution. In The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare creates two

Seeking revenge is never a good thing, no matter how much one has been wronged. In the case of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, he is seeking revenge against a white whale called Moby Dick. Prior to the start of the story, the whale had bitten off Ahab’s leg, leaving the captain in a a fragile physical and mental state seeking vengeance. In the assigned reading of Moby-Dick, readers are able to examine how the Captain Ahab’s obsession with finding Moby Dick slowly leads to a digression in the mental state of his brain.

Ahab is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and their mission is to go on a sea voyage and bring back as many whales as possible for the standard use of oil. Ahab has a different mission plan set in his mind, then the other entire crew member aboard the ship. The scars and wooden leg they are on his body are just horrible reminders of what can go wrong when a man tries to go

When Ahab begins to speak with the crew, negativity to his plan is expressed through the character Starbuck as he vocalizes that he is not looking for any danger, just an opportunity to get paid through the normal routine and calling Ahab’s quest for vengeance “madness” and “blasphemous” (Melville 163-164). Starbuck does not have the same understanding of Moby Dick as Ahab, and has not the need for a sublime experience. However, the rest of the crew is mesmerized by the idea of Moby Dick, as they have all heard rumors of his greatness, including that Moby Dick is the reason why Ahab now uses a whale bone as his peg leg, a terrifying action of Moby Dick, but one that the crew universally desires an experience of. Ahab makes a terrifically persuading speech to the crew, in which he states, “But in each event– in the living act, the undoubted deed– there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!” describing that if any action is ever worth doing, it is the action of pursuing and gaining greater understanding of that which you don’t understand (Melville 164). Ahab wants to inspire the crew to accept his quest for the whale, and uses their already

Moby-Dick might symbolize evil and if so Ahab's obsession to kill Moby-Dick is evil as well in my opinion. This goes back to what I said in the beginning, that it seems evident that the other exists within the self. The evil that Moby-Dick appears to have is the evil within Captain Ahab. Ahab cast his own feelings and instincts onto Moby-Dick, because Ahab can not accept himself as he is.

While Ahab was still the obedient captain he once was, he was one of the most successful and higher rewarding captains. Unexpectedly, in the midst of a whaling, Ahab and his crew encountered the whale he now refers to as “Moby Dick” or “the white whale.” The crew initiated in capturing the whale, but this whale was different. Rather than capturing the whale, the whale captured Ahab and though Ahab escaped, he did not escape entirely. Moby Dick had dismembered and consumed half of one of Ahab’s legs. Ever since this incident, Ahab’s one and only desire or, as stated in the text, “...his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought” has been to kill Moby Dick; which soon turns him obsessive (Melville). Ahab would not let anyone or anything stop him from achieving his goal, “...’I’ll chase him ‘round Good Hope, and ‘round the Horn, and ‘round the Norway Maelstrom, and ‘round

Therefore I asked myself, why do you focus on the past when you have so much ahead of you? Let the past be the past. Moreover, I always hold onto situations in the past that when something positive tries to occur, I bring up the negative past and forget the positive side of the current situation. When Captain Ahab came across the captain of the Rachel, the captain says, “My boy, my own boy is among them. For God's sake -- I beg you,' -- Gardiner exclaimed to Ahab -- 'I will gladly pay for it -- for eight and forty hours only -- you must, oh, you must, and you shall do this thing” (128), however, Ahab still remained obsessed with trying to find Moby Dick (for something that has happened so long ago) that he is blinded by the fact that he could have potentially save someone’s life. "Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab seems

•Captain Ahab- the pequod obssessed captain whom loses his leg in an encounter with a spermwhale on his last voyage. Therefore, he uses a false leg that was made by sperm whale's jaw. He considered Moby Dick as an enemy. This can be observed in Chapter 36 wherein Ahab sees Moby Dick as a "mask" behind which lies a great power. For him that power is an inscrutable evil and he pursues that it is his fate to destroy this evil. His actions could be concluded that he wants to be superior over the whale and it can also be seen Ahab that

The main character in the novel Moby-Dick, written by Herman Melville, is a middle-aged man named Starbuck. This well-founded character tries to overthrow Captain Ahab. The problem is that nobody can overthrow Captain Ahab. Starbuck perceives that it is inconsiderate for Ahab to ask the crew members to endanger their lives to kill a white whale named Moby-Dick, that Captain Ahab wants revenge on. Starbuck is not going to work against his Caption because of his admirable character traits, such as being loyal, a good-natured, and religious.

Gabriel warns Ahab that if he keeps pursuing the white whale his end will come. Ahab refuses to listen because he is selfish and is too determined to seek his revenge that he will risk his life and his crews life so he can kill the creature of the deep.

Sailors, Navy men, and other sea faring people all have their share of superstitions relating to the ocean, including the belief in curses. Many sailors believed in certain oceanic animals either brought curses with them, or they themselves were the curse; the Albatross falls under this umbrella. They can, however, be seen as good luck, or bad, particularly the death of one can be seen as a curse. Bad luck comes in troves on the open ocean, and the most famous bout of bad luck belongs to Captain Ahab. Ahab’s obsession with the destruction of the white whale in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick represents one of many key elements of the book and certainly the books most well-known feature. However, many dismiss Ahab’s rage at the creature as the ravings and delusions of a madman seeking revenge. Ahab’s reasons are, in fact, far more complicated. Moby Dick represents Ahab’s loss of control over his actions. The moment that he lost his leg to the whale, Ahab lost control over his own actions: “Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity” (Melville 156). Ahab’s obsession with destroying Moby Dick only grew with time, and on several occasions Ahab would put his crew in danger even for a single piece of news on his whereabouts, let alone when they attempt to kill the animal, loudly declaring that he “fear[s] not thy epidemic…” (Melville 252). Ahab’s obsession deals with more than mere revenge. Everyone who comes