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    Captain Ahab

    Fictional character from the novel Moby-Dick

    Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory. The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags him to his death beneath the sea and sinks the Pequod. Melville biographer Andrew Delbanco calls Ahab "a brilliant personification of the very essence of fanaticism". Scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls attention to the fact that Ahab is called an "ungodly god-like man". Ahab's "tragedy is that of an unregenerate will" whose "burning mind is barred out from the exuberance of love" and argues that he "remains damned". Wikipedia

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    Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod.On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory. The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was ...
  4. sparknotes.com

    Captain Ahab false Save. Characters Moby-Dick Captain Ahab. Previous Next . Ahab, the Pequod's obsessed captain, represents both an ancient and a quintessentially modern type of hero. Like the heroes of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, Ahab suffers from a single fatal flaw, one he shares with such legendary characters as Oedipus and Faust.
  5. litcharts.com

    The "monomaniacal" captain of the Pequod, Ahab is a brooding, proud, solitary figure, deathly angry that the monster Moby Dick has eaten his leg. Ahab vows revenge on the animal, even though others, like Starbuck, warn him that no "revenge" is possible against a "dumb animal."Ahab admits that he is not just hunting Moby Dick, but "whatever lies behind" the whale, and his quest ...
  6. cliffsnotes.com

    Long before Ahab's first appearance, there is an air of mystery about the captain of the Pequod.The owners hire the crew in Ahab's absence. When Ishmael inquires about the captain, he is told that Ahab is a man of few words but deep meaning; from the first, it is clear that the captain is a complicated character.
  7. britannica.com

    Captain Ahab, fictional character, a one-legged captain of the whaling vessel Pequod in the novel Moby Dick (1851), by Herman Melville.From the time that his leg is bitten off by the huge white whale called Moby Dick, Captain Ahab monomaniacally pursues his elusive nemesis.Ahab's obsession with killing Moby Dick brings about his own death as well as those of all but one of his crew members ...
  8. Captain Ahab: one of the best whaling captains in Nantucket, the commander of the Pequod, and definitely a bit odd. He's got an Oldboy -style vendetta against a dang whale, after all. Late in the novel, Ahab begins to reminisce about how stark and lonely his life has been: he's spent forty years working his way up on whaling ships, and only ...
  9. literopedia.com

    Mar 7, 2024At its core, "Moby Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of the elusive white whale, Moby Dick, who had previously maimed him. The novel is narrated by Ishmael, a young sailor who joins Ahab's whaling expedition aboard the ship Pequod. As the journey progresses, Ishmael becomes entangled in Ahab's single-minded quest ...
  10. eng-literature.com

    Ahab Moby Dick. Ahab, the protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby Dick is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod.The Captain lost his one leg as Moby Dick, the whale bit off which made him wear a prosthetic leg.. There is an autobiographical side to Melville's novels in that he wrote directly or indirectly about his own experiences in them. This holds true in the case of Moby Dick also.
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