MOBY DICK

Moby Dick by Herman Melville describes the “fight til death” tale between Moby Dick and Captain Ahab, one of whom is the protagonist while the other is the antagonist.

Captain Ahab is a stone faced, mad, and selfish man who is willing to have the whole crew killed in the process of getting his vengeance. He expresses his madness and his one-track mind when he says, “God hunt us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death.” Ahab accually believes that the whale is antagonizing him which he admits when he says “He tasks me, he heaps me”. When a fellow whaling captain asks Ahab for help with finding his son, Ahab refuses and selfishly says “I will not do it. Even now I loose time. Good bye, good bye.”

Moby Dick is a rare, fearless, and very aggressive white whale. Ahab makes it very clear that Moby Dick took his leg in statements like “it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lumber of me for ...