Similarities Between Moby Dick And The Pequod

The Unimaginable Spending too much time with someone or something can cause your state of mind to change through time. This behavior was displayed throughout the journey of the Pequod. The Pequod was a ship that set sail through the Atlantic, in search for a enormous white whale. The Pequod left from Nantucket on Christmas Day with a crew of many races, in hope to find the unique whale, Moby Dick. As their journey progresses the physical disintegration of the Pequod parallels to the condition of its inhabitants in many ways. The mental stability of the crew and the boat were similar throughout the whole film, particularly in the scenes with Pip falling in the ocean, the uprising of an electrical fire, and the Iceberg that could’ve ended all.
The stable physical condition of the ship was comparable to the inhabitants state of minds. In the Moby Dick one of the ways this was displayed was when Pip, the Pequod’s black cabin boy, was left behind in the middle of the ocean. Pip had fallen in after jumping into one of the small whale boats. The situation the crew was in when trying to catch what they thought was Moby Dick was crucial, they had no time to let the whale go, so the crew had no intentions of saving Pip. Only a handful of crew members suggested to search for Pip, so they broke away from the others to search. The conditions of the boats were similar to the crew not wanting to turn back for Pip. The boats were not all intact, just like the men's thoughts about what's best for the crew. Although a whale was caught, it was not their precious Moby Dick, and many problems still lied