Likewise, in Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick" (1851), Captain Ahab is responsible for his very own demise because the decisions he has made. ... However, the whaling voyage becomes a vengeful conquest to hunt down a whale named Moby Dick. ... For instance, when the Pequod met the Jeroboam, a whaling ship that encounter Moby Dick, Ahab ignores Gabriel's warning that he will "soon [be] going that way" towards death if he chases Moby Dick, but similar Ahab disregards warning illustrating his self-importance over others predestination" (Melville 308). In addition, Ahab is seen...

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If we are to see in the Pequod under Ahab a symbol of the teleocratic state, of the state conceived as a mechanism for achieving a substantive purpose [note oakeshott phrase earlier], we first need to identify precisely what distinguishes the hunting of Moby-Dick from the hunting of sperm whales generally, and why this difference points towards two essentially different visions of the state. ... If we concentrate on the similarly purposeful quality of the quest for vengeance and toil for profit, Moby-Dick might present itself most readily as a critique merely of some kinds of state-mandated ...

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