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Captain Ahab is a mysterious, revenge-seeking commander who utilizes his crew’s fear of him to get his revenge. Captain Ahab has a mysterious aura of mystery surrounding his character. He is described as looking like a man “cut away from the stake, when the fire was overrunningly waste all the limbs without consuming them,” (283). This description of his appearance is used to show the effect his pent up anger for Moby Dick has had on him with time. However, he hopes to relieve this burden by getting revenge on the animal. This long for revenge is audibly shown in Captain Ahab’s call for “Death to Moby Dick!” (286). Ahab is so enraged with the physical harm that Moby Dick has caused him that he demands that the whale be put to death. He commands
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