Annotated Bibliography The Shining and Moby Dick LoBrutto, Vincent. ... In Search of Moby Dick, Great Britain, Abacus, 2000. ... His record of this adventure was read by Melville, and incorporated into the greater story of Moby Dick. ... In the "Introduction" to the Oxford World Classics edition of Moby Dick, 1988. ... By using such analysis of The Shining as a type of voyage, this may offer another line of comparison to Moby Dick. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They mostly have a very poor plot (or none at all) and the emphasis is put onto the rather comic and pathetic characters. ... From the opening line, "Call me Jonah," to the end of the book when Bokonon tells Jonah to make a gesture to the gods, Vonnegut uses Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a symbol of fate. Every time the subject of fate is broached, especially with the Moby Dick references, it is a joke. ...

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Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. ... Analysis of Major Characters Marlow - Although Marlow appears in several of Conrad's other works, it is important not to view him as merely a surrogate for the author. ... Kurtz is related to figures like Faustus, Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost,Moby-Dick's Ahab, and Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate