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A 5 page discussion of how Captain Ahab challenges the very order of creation in his pursuit of Moby Dick. No additional sources cited.
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creature has its advantage to co-exist with the rest. The cheetah has its speed; the whale has its size; and man has his brain. In all nature there
is checks and balances. If the cheetah used its speed to kill all the caribou just because it could --an imbalance would result, disturbing the delicate thread of existence of
all other creatures. . In the minds of some, however creation is a linear chain of being, with God being the first link in the heavens; the angels below
him; man below the angels and animals below man. Captain Ahab is one of these minds. He believes that all physical creation is there to serve him. He is
a small creature with a mighty mind that superimposes the evil in the world onto the whale, Moby Dick. He does challenge the very order of nature with his
view of the whale and his righteous quest to kill it, but he fails because the natural order of creation is unchangeable dispute the minds of men. Ahabs vindictive obsession
with Moby Dick is a metaphor for the mans battle to subdue creation and by doing that subdue the Creator of that creation. When Ahab
appears on the scene, he is an imposing figure of a man whose scars tell the tale of his battles with nature and with God. "Threading its way out
from among his gray hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark,
lividly whitish" (chapt 28). This scar that travels from the side of his face all the way down his body is the first evidence of Ahab challenging the order of
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