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Comparison Of Animal Farm 'And Revenge Of The Whale'

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My first two books I digested was “Animal Farm” and “Revenge of the Whale”. The two books focused on the theme of leadership in times of trouble. We see this with Captain Pollard encouraging his men to keep fighting despite the mediocre chance of survival and Old Major stirring up his fellow comrades to rise against the oppression they are facing from the humans. Also, my dessert, “Percy Jackson” has a connection with “Revenge of the Whale”. Both narratives are focused on a group facing unprecedented danger on a quest. “Animal Farm” portrays the Russian Revolution as a farm taken over by animals lead by the pigs. I enjoyed this book because of how Orwell related characters in the book to people or groups in the Russian Revolution and how precisely he depicted the tyranny in the revolution. After …show more content…

The book is based on the real life account of fourteen year-old Thomas Nickerson and his experiences as a sailor on the whale hunting ship Essex and their eventual downfall when they are left without the Essex after a whale attack. I enjoyed this book for its fast-paced action and extremely detailed story telling of the effects of starvation and dehydration to the minds and bodies of the sailors. Even witnessing the mens choices in to either resort to cannibalism or to die with dignity. I would recommend this book to people who can stomach the ghastly details of the sailors’ survival and people interested in survival stories and historical books. However, I enjoyed the book there were some parts that were certainly disappointing. Whenever the men ran out of food on the whaleboats they would always choose to eat the black sailor. I don’t understand that in times of desperate survival that race would still matter in who had a chance to make it home. Philbrick wrote this book to tell the unknown tale of the whaleship Essex and to highlight the theme that man can’t control nature but nature controls

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Traveling from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to South America, the Essex met its doom in the Pacific Ocean in November 1820, when a sperm whale attacked and destroyed the ship. The crew, adrift in their small whaleboats, faced storms, thirst, illness and starvation, and were even reduced to cannibalism for survival. However, succeeding in one of the great open-boat journeys of all time, the few survivors were picked up off South America. Their story, spread widely in America in the 19th century, provided inspiration for Melville 's tale of a ship captain seeking revenge on an elusive whale.

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The story of Essex is set in the early 1800s, which was also the time of the Industrial Revolution, which was a turning point in history for transportation and trade across the world, which in turn meant that the ships used would be powerful enough to take a whale attack; however, the island of Nantucket hadn’t used their resources to upgrade their ships. If Nantucket had taken part in the “great strides in transportation”(Wilkinson) that took place during the Industrial Revolution, their whaling profits would have increased and the safety of collecting the oil would have increased as well. Another part of Nantucket's history that is important to note is how the entire island economy almost collapsed in the mid-19th century because they tried to stop whaling “Nantucket suffered a near-catastrophic decline”(Conry) and was abandoned for years. If students knew this while reading the book, they would understand why the men on Nantucket viewed whaling with such high honor and why even though crew members may die and they might have faced traumatic experiences, they remained wanting to go back out to sea and if they were taken away from duty, they would try to find a different way to support the whaling crews. Not only was

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Ishmael, the narrator of this story, enrolls in a whaling voyage as a sailor to cure depression. On his way to find a ship in Nantucket, he meets Queequeg, who is a South Sea Island harpooner that has just returned from his latest whaling trip. Ishmael and Queequeg become best friends and roommates. Together, they enroll in a voyage on a Ship called “The Pequod”, which is just about to start on a three-year expedition to collect sperm whales. On board of “The Pequod”, Ishmael meets Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask and the other harpooners, Tashtego and Daggoo.

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In Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea the crew of the Essex is set adrift in the Pacific forcing them to break the boundaries set by society and do whatever it takes to survive. As the whaleship Essex made its whaling trip through the Pacific, a vicious attack by a whale, poor decisions, depleted rations, and extreme starvation lead to cannibalism. To begin, a catastrophic event first turns the crew of the Essex towards cannibalism as they are forced to limit their supplies of food and water.

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Moby Dick tells the story of the determined Captain Ahab’s mission for vengeance on the Sperm Whale. Ahab had lost his leg to the whale years before, leaving Ahab with a peg leg. Ahab is so strongminded by his want to murder the whale, he is ready to risk everything, including his life, the lives of his crewmembers, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick. Ishmael, the narrator of the story, explains that he goes to sea whenever he is depressed.

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Moby is an extraordinary novel that makes you realize that revenge is not always something good. This novel is based around Ishmael and his amazing experience on the seas. It doesn’t take very long before a normal voyage takes a turn and totally changes its priorities to much more dangerous scenarios. The novel is basically about the initial plan for the trip, then the captain’s story, and finally the pursue for the great white whale, Moby Dick which will make this story a one of a kind and is indeed a novel that will change he reader’s perspective on revenge. Ishmael along with other crew members were on a voyage to look for whales and their sperm.

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The way Melville conveys the issue of race is subtle, but with his powerful imagery and profound themes, the deeper issues of the book resonate with the reader after they put it back in their shelf. Although the white whale may embody nobility, virtue, fear, and racial superiority (something that Frederick Douglass would find compelling), it’s important to analyze the actual setting that this story takes place in: The

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As large as a whale, Moby Dick by Herman Melville stands as a cornerstone of American lit. Fraught with rich stories of the maritime voyage led by Captain Ahab, the quest for the ever mentioned whale persists. However, the whale only appears within the last fifth of the monstrous novel. Melville uses the other four-fifths to set the portentous battle stage: Moby Dick versus Ahab. At times of great bore, the novel seems to drag on with its frequent immense descriptions, allusions, asides, songs and soliloquies that all together make Moby Dick something of literary beauty.

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The Great American Novel, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, discusses the events of a whaling voyage across the world. The characters throughout the book, although different, have either the same attitude towards the whale, Moby Dick. After the captain of the ship, Ahab, had an unfortunate incident where his legs was bitten off by Moby Dick on another excursion. Since then, Ahab wanted revenge as the he felt that no whale or anything should ever defy him. And because he is the captain, all other crew mates have to obliged.

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The ship sails into the Indian Ocean. They catch and kill several whales to use their blubber for oil but none are the great Moby Dick. The Pequod meets many other whaling ships in their travels and the captain requests information from the other crews as to the whereabouts of Moby Dick. At times the captain is warned of the doom they will face by prophets from the other vessels. In an ironic event one of the crew, Tashtego ,almost meets his demise when he falls overboard in the head of a slain whale, but thankfully is rescued by Queequeg.

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Through the symbols Applied by Herman Melville’s novel, Moby-Dick to give the novel its full title,tells the tragic story of a failed attempt at vengeance. After traveling to New Bedford,Ishmael an alienated,venturesome man becomes friends with a harpooner named Queequeq in a frightening circumtance because of being practicing cannibalisim and a man who makes a living by selling shriveled ,desiccated heads as a sort of “curio” The story is narrator, Ishmael wants decides to try his hand at a whaling job with Queequeq and see the "watery part of the world. "After a while, Ishmael meets the rest of the vessels’ crew, including Flask,Stubb and first mate Starbuck except the strange Pequod’s,the ship’s captain, Ahab whom doesn’t reveals himself for a big time.

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Herman Melville can be considered one of the most important writers of the American Romance. His masterpiece, Moby Dick, tells the reader the story of Ishmael, an isolated sailor whose only escape is the sea, his one and only consolation. Ishmael joins the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by Ahab, an obscure and sick old sea wolf obsessed with the haunting of Moby Dick, a white sperm whale which ripped his leg out, leaving in his mind a deep revenge desire. In this paper I illustrate the description of the captain Ahab’s inhumanity and cruelty, as well as Ishmael’s desire of being in contact with the sea, seen as a way of escaping from the world he lives in. Captain Ahab’s inhumanity is described along the story, letting the reader discover Ahab’s reasons of his cruelty.

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Moby Dick Essay Herman Melville’s story, Moby Dick, is the tale of a forlorn crew and their captain, who attempts to take down Moby Dick, an infamous white whale. Despite many warning signs regarding how dangerous their voyage is becoming, in addition to disapproval from members of the crew, Captain Ahab pushes on in his venture to get revenge against Moby Dick, who took Ahab’s leg. In the end all but the narrator, Ishmael, die, leaving Moby Dick to still roam free. It becomes quite clear that the journey was destined to fail since the beginning, due to Ahab’s insane focus on the white whale.

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“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. ”(Melville, 342) So claims Ishmael in the American epic, Moby Dick, authored by Herman Melville in 1851. This lengthy novel, feared and hated by countless high school students, details the adventures of a whaling ship, the Pequod, and her mysterious captain, Ahab. A great white whale, Moby Dick, on a previous voyage, ripped off Ahab’s leg and the now one-legged captain is out to get revenge. Once the crew discovers their captain’s monomaniacal desire to kill Moby Dick, they believe him to be mad.

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In The Heart of the Sea Herman Melville wrote the novel Moby Dick, in 1851, about a rumour he heard while whaling. The story was of a monstrous Sperm Whale that attacked and sunk Whaler ships. Melville was greatly influenced by the Romantic writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who called this book “the great American epic.” Despite what Hawthorne believed, the novel didn’t become very popular until after Melville’s death in 1891. At this time, many people had started talking about the famous ship that sunk in Melville’s book, The Essex.

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