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This 4 page paper is a detailed analysis of "Moby Dick's" Chapter 88 - "Schools and School Masters". This paper highlights 4 specific passages and uses these passages to give perspective to the entire story as well as presenting an analytical discussion of the layers of meaning in these specific passages. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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This chapter speaks about the differences between the schools of female whales and those of the males. However, as this passage
reveals, Melville has brilliantly combined these functional characteristics of these animals with very human likenesses, which again supports his idea of integration between humans and the animal kingdom. Clearly,
"real" whales do not "love", but instead rely upon instinctual responses that secure their natural order. But, Melville interprets these instinctual behaviors in such as way as to identify
them with human traits. By doing this, we are actually better able to understand the character of Ahab and even Ishmael, and to see both animal and human from
the perspective of their character, not their form. "His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that
the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was
in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils". Essentially,
Melville is describing again the schoolmaster not just as an animal carrying out instinctual actions, but is describing his behavior in such a way as to identify it with human
characteristics. He alludes to the idea that the schoolmaster isnt just the head of a harem of female whales, but is in fact capable of instilling some very radical
and challenging ideas into these females, which then results in various outrageous actions. By likening the schoolmaster to a radical professor teaching his students to engage new ideas, Melville
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