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6 Results for Moby Dick

1. Sin as a Being

Moby Dick is a timeless tale of man's battle against sin and evil. The men of the Pequod are in a constant evil battle against the white whale Moby Dick. There are many strong symbols in this book, but one of the strongest is Moby Dick being living sin. ... (Melville, 1851, p. 174) It often seems as if some evil spirit, possibly the devil, possesses Moby Dick. ... Melville does a masterful job of portraying Moby Dick as living sin, the destroyer of worlds. ...

  • Word Count: 654
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such works include, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Hurley 13, 15). ...

  • Word Count: 319
  • Approx Pages: 1

3. American Literature

Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. ...

  • Word Count: 774
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden

Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ...

  • Word Count: 790
  • Approx Pages: 3

5. Literature - American Renaissance and Romantic

American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance took place roughly from 1840-1865, though the most significant work of this period was prod...

  • Word Count: 917
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Leo Marx: The Machine in the G

Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ...

  • Word Count: 821
  • Approx Pages: 3
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