"Captain Ahab" vividly imagines the formative years ... with part of his leg missing. Acquiring a peg leg made of whalebone, Ahab sets off on the final chapter of his life, told by his Pequod ...

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession ... leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the ...

The ‘it’ is Captain Ahab’s peg leg, a legacy of the seaman’s brush with a mighty whale – the Moby Dick of the title – that, in Herman Melville’s classic story, the vengeful Ahab is ...

An ex-ship’s captain with a wooden peg-leg and extensive maritime experience ... Party leader Graham Capillary said that Captain Ahab would be placed at number 5 on the party list, saying ...

The necessary peg-leg prosthesis did not make ... she was touching in Pip’s demented scene with Captain Gardiner (Brian Major), who fruitlessly begs Ahab for help. As Stubb and Flask, Malcolm ...

And the time when, playing the notoriously peg-legged Captain Ahab to a packed house, he was forced to improvise an exit after his carefully gimmicked fake leg fell off right at center stage.

It tells the story of Captain Ahab and his quest for revenge ... One of the more literal translations from the novel is Ahab's peg leg. Tenor Ben Heppner bends his left leg back so the stage ...

Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white whale in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick — have been misunderstood. To most ...

Michele Norris has a literary reminder of a famous hallucination: Captain Ahab, from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. Ahab lost his leg but can feel it still.

Today, it appears he has much... Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white whale in Herman ...