Anonymous
11/1/2025, 4:58:28 AM
No.24845935
For example, Moby-Dick:
It obviously tackles God and death head-on in the hunt for the White Whale, and money in the business of whaling in general.
Arguably, Melville does something unprecedented in his consideration of the meaning of tattoos, scrimshaw, and tall tales as forms of folk art.
The only debatable one is sex. The Pequod is an all-male world, but we do see the brotherly love of Ishmael and Queeuqueg and Ahab's mad abandonment of his young wife. If you accept that the book is homoerotic, then it's checkmate.
It obviously tackles God and death head-on in the hunt for the White Whale, and money in the business of whaling in general.
Arguably, Melville does something unprecedented in his consideration of the meaning of tattoos, scrimshaw, and tall tales as forms of folk art.
The only debatable one is sex. The Pequod is an all-male world, but we do see the brotherly love of Ishmael and Queeuqueg and Ahab's mad abandonment of his young wife. If you accept that the book is homoerotic, then it's checkmate.