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A 3 page paper which examines a passage from Chapter 88
of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmby88.rtf
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but a few of the themes. It is a tale that illustrates the determined, obsessive, actions of one man as narrated by another. The narrator in this story often serves
as the stable and somewhat unbiased witness to the events that unfold. He is, in many ways, the voice of reason and a lens through which we can see the
events unfold. This man, Ishmael, provides us with intriguing and often symbolic descriptions of events and natural elements throughout the story. The following paper examines one of those passages and
discusses how it applies to the entire story. Chapter 88 The passage to be examined is as follows: "The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously
mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools. For while those females are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most
pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a
penal gout" (Melville). While this passage clearly deals with the differences betweenthe males and the females, the narrator, Ishmael, is also offering us a symbolic glimpse at the character
of men. Men, primarily those men on the ship, are men who are likely "dangerous to encounter" on an ordinary day. They are perhaps greedy men, ignorant men, and men
driven by not much more than instinct. These men, and thus the bulls, can also be related to Americans in general. In Melvilles time America was relatively new and
the men who ensured that America grew were primarily men who were pushed by greed to succeed and make money. Opportunity was great and men would do practically anything, instinctually,
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