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Captain Ahab In The Great Gatsby By Herman Melville

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Captain Ahab will not only chase the whale unto the eternal damnation of hell itself, but he is determined to take the rest of the crew with him as he asks them to ‘splice hands’ (Melville 179) with him proving their loyalty to him and his mission. This ideology can be seen as the root of the matter in the analysis of this novel as its applications to the worldly realm is significant. The novel displays that a singular obsession of any person in the world can be deemed as their own personal ‘white whale’. Ahab does not once surrender or realise that he is being mad and proceeds with his philosophy behind the mission: ‘All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some

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