Essays on Moby Dick
The Romantic period stipulated emotional sensitivity and individual subjectivity as a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment. Romanticism saw the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth) through intuition rather than deduction. Both Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice explore and subvert the aspects of Romanticism....
If a man is feeling depressed or in sorrow, he will commonly look past it and move on but when this feeling consumes him he will agonize in pain. Herman Melville’s, Moby Dick and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe are both frightening, Gothic anecdotes that well represent writing in the mid 1800s Dark Romantic...
Herman Melville authored the novel Moby Dick in 1851, a first-person narrative that entirely explores Captain Ahab’s deadly quest aboard the Pequod whaling ship. Previously, an enormous white whale, Moby Dick, had bitten off his leg. Therefore, he swore to hunt and kill it in retaliation to embrace long-awaited revenge. In literature, Melville’s story depicts...
