Melville’s description of the ship’s captain, Ahab, is a description of the bankers ... and our ultimate fate as a nation, and perhaps a species. Melville makes our murderous obsessions ...

It may also be the best metaphor for Putin’s fate. At the heart of the book’s narrative is the obsessive quest for revenge of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod; Moby Dick, a giant white ...

Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod to their deaths to kill the infamous whale. Tousled at sea while bumbling around the waves completely ...

What is missing is the tragic sense. Captain Ahab is an authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the “malice inscrutable” of ...

With his forceful tenor, Brandon Jovanovich did the best he could with Ahab’s bland music, expressing the captain’s madness ...