How Did Hawthorne Write A Moby Dick Romanticism

In the Heart of the Sea

On October 18th, 1841, the Great American Epic “Moby Dick” was published by Herman Melville. Melville worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839. These sea voyages sparked a theme of seafaring life stories; some personal and some with imagined events. Some of his most inspirational writers were; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. As a whaler, Melville overheard many different tales, but the one that he became the most obsessed with was about a survivor of a ship that had been attacked and sank by a great white whale. The ship was called, The Essex: an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Nantucket was a town that thrived on whaling and the oil that was worth its weight in gold.

This is clearly seen when the position of Captain is given to the inexperienced Pollard rather than Chase who has proven his skill as a good whaler, but is not as high in society like Pollard, Whose name is well known throughout Nantucket. The company would rather have a well-known man rather than a low man without a good whaling family

The movie does a good job of showing this by showing viewers what Nantucket was like. It made you feel apart of the film. But movies change the truth of some stories. The Nantucket may have looked nothing like what the film showed, but it still gives the viewer and idea. The Romantic often had no hope of winning his struggle but fought anyway, Chase shows this many times throughout the film. Chase shows determination to hunt the whale down but his small crew on their small whaleboat struggle to survive with no food or