Dick' is a powerful symbol of fate, defiance, and self-destruction, revealing the deeper meaning behind his relentless ...

When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the ...

The title role in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab’s legs—and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...