symbolizes for each of them. The three meanings behind Moby dick are evil‚ god-like‚ and chaos. 5. Why did Melville choose to write about whaling? Why was the industry significant? Melville chose to wrote about whaling because it was a true story. 6. What did Melville do when he was 21? When Melville was 21 he set sail for the South Pacific. 7. What established writer did Melville befriend while he was writing Moby Dick? 8. Comment on the four harpooners of the Pequod; politically
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A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity
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symbolic novel‚ its major ’symbol’ symbolizes absolutely nothing. Its heroic central figure is a character on the epic scale‚ whose strength overwhelms all the men who surround him; but he is blinded by his own vision‚ mouths the ideas of an author whom Melville thought "a humbug‚" and is ultimately a parody of the Transcendentalist "great man." The white whale whose image Captain Ahab pursues around the world is nothing but a whale--an occasion for the projection of symbolism but not a symbol. In any larger
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Nevermore will there ever be someone like Edgar Allan Poe‚ a tortured soul‚ a deeply talented haunted writer‚ who found fame by creating romantic and gothic lore. He was a rare and unique individual‚ surrounded by controversy like no one else before. Poe was misunderstood during his time. Many attributed this to his drinking or use of drugs. The line between reality‚ dark fantasy and despair became intertwined in his work‚ and this is where it can be said that Edgar was a genius. It took several
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experience. It would take 50 years of accumulated history for America to earn its cultural independence and to produce the first great generation of American writers: Washington Irving‚ James Fenimore Cooper‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Herman Melville‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ Walt Whitman‚ and Emily Dickinson. America’s literary independence was slowed by a lingering identification with England‚ an excessive imitation of English or classical literary models‚ and difficult economic
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The history of American Literature starts well before this land was even called America. It has been a great evolution to come from tribal symbols and drawings to today’s Stephen King and Danielle Steele. Literature has gone through many phases and was impacted by great events and ideas in American history. The earliest form of literature in what would one day be known as America were far from what modern day people would consider "Literature". The Natives who inhabited this land first had unwritten
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cholo ‚ means dog. Not purebred but not considered to be respectable in character or appearance. The Spaniards use it for insult and bitter‚ abusive language. Cholo used in the English language dates back to approximately 1851 when used by Herman Melville in his book “Moby-Dick”‚ which the title refers ti a Spanish speaking sailor‚ possibly from the Windward Islands. In the United States today the term cholo also can indicate a person of Mexican or Mexican-American descent who is associated with
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This phrase means pretty close to how it sounds‚ it means that if you are considered the laughing stock that you are what everyone is laughing at. The connotation of this phrase can be both bad or good depending on the context of how you use it. “Love is blind” you would think this phrase would come out of the famous romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet‚ but it is found in The Merchant of Venice (2.6). It means that when you love someone you refuse to see their flaws or the error of their ways. “Wear
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Differences Nowadays‚ people depend more on technologies. Almost everyone has at least one hardware and software. How do people use those technologies and how do they think? Thoughts are different. I read the article “ Hell Is Other iPods” by Caspar Melville and “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Theodora Stites. I found some similarities and differences of those two articles and I would like to share my experience which relates to those two articles. First of all‚ both “ Hell Is Other iPods” and “ Someone
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Why did Melville choose to write about whaling? Why was the industry significant? He chose to write about whaling because‚ in that time‚ it was such a popular and care-free industry- meaning that there weren’t any restrictions on whale and hunting and what not. During the 1800s‚ the whaling industry was at the height of its era In New England- supplying the world with oil for street lamps‚ lanterns‚ and all kinds of machinery. Whale oil was the oil of commerce. 6. What did Melville do when
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