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Moby Dick

Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:51:53
Category: / Social Sciences
Length: 8 pages (2317 words)
<Tab/>"Moby Dick is biographic of Melville in the sense that it discloses every nook and cranny of his imagination." (Humford 41) This paper is a psychological study of Moby Dick. Moby Dick was written out of Melville's person experiences. <Tab/>Moby Dick is a story of the adventures a person named Ishmael. Ishmael is a lonely, alienated individual who wants to see the "watery part of the …
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…impact on him that lasted his whole life. These hardships are evident throughout his writings and symbolized in Moby Dick by the character Ishmael. The name Ishmael can be traced back to the Biblical story of Ishmael, who was alienated child. The story of Ishmael closely relates to Melville's life. There is a vast amount of evidence proving that Melville knew of the Biblical story of Ishmael and purposely named Ishmael of Moby Dick, Ishmael.
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