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Essay Archive - How Would the Characters of "The Scarlet Letter" See the White Whale of Melville's "Moby Dick"
How Would the Characters of "The Scarlet Letter" See the White Whale of
Melville's "Moby Dick"
In Melville's Moby Dick our narrator, Ishmael, has a unique view on
the great white whale. "...all these are but subtle deceits, not actually
inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified
Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurement's cover nothing
but the charnel-house within..." By examining his remarks, we can tell he
is a very down-to-earth man; however, Melville uses a common theme of....
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