Starbuck, Queequeg, Stubb and Daggoo – all of these characters have presence in the pages. In particular, Captain Ahab is so brilliantly written, so powerfully complex that his obsession with Moby ...

"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 ...

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 ...