ENG 304: Melville & Ellison

The fact that Stubb abandoned Pip on his second time out of the boat brings several questions of ethics into focus aboard the Pequod.  It weighs the value of human life…

Ahab’s monologue in the chapter “The Sphynx” is one of the few chances we as readers are able to witness this curious captain in a raw and emotional state. Within…

In chapter 64, we read about Stubb’s whale supper and about how most whalemen do not enjoy whale meat. I think this is reasonable because on a humane level, many…

The action of naming an animal is interesting to consider within the context of Melville’s Moby Dick. In the chapter “The Affidavit”, we as readers are told that there are…

Part of our reading for today that we didn’t get to discuss much in class was Chapter 58 Brit. Ishmael compares the animals on land vs. those of the sea…

When reading through the chapter on the whiteness of the whale I was a bit surprised about the connotations that went along with its color. I understand that white versus…

As with many of Melville’s stories, race plays a significant role in Moby Dick. First with the introduction of Queequeg, Ishmael is enamored by the differences of him. He behaves…

When reading Moby Dick it is not hard to see why the novel did not receive initial and commercial success. Melville’s structural style and the his jumps between narration could…

I think I loved the pop-up version of Moby Dick the most at the showcase of the Moby Dick and Ellison display of artwork and novel pieces. It was such…

Though a majority of Herman Melville’s readers have found the Cetology chapter of his novel Moby Dick to be unnecessarily long and tedious, I thoroughly enjoyed both his comical take…