Moby Dick Research Paper

Following in the footsteps of several famous Romantic style writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville began work on his most famous project that would eventually spread across all of America, Moby Dick. Through the years, Melville's novel has inspired many despite it's early on rejection, and has lured beautiful works from other men and women like himself, eventually bringing forth an original perspective of it's own, "In the Heart of the Sea." This work of art, crafted and directed by the hands of Ron Howard, was not only created to remind those of Melville's classic that told fantastic stories of a man consumed with revenge against a ashen-white whale, but was also devoted to retelling the real story behind Moby Dick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, where a whaling expedition ended tragically when the Essex was attacked by a large alabaster-white whale leaving only 8 of a twenty man crew left to survive. Staying true to Melville’s own literary era, Ron Howard made, “In the Heart of the Sea” to reflect the romantic tenets and ideas

The rich and grand were seen as less than desirable whereas the underdog was praised. Chase was whaling to escape the judgment of his father’s felony, and he was far from rich; simply a peasant. Yet, his character seemed to draw the eye of the audience because of this idea; pulling tenderness towards himself with his simple rather than extravagant qualities. The whale does this as well because of the personification it held, shown through its protection of it’s family. It was dangerous and ruthless, but even so, it becomes hard not to cheer it along because of its purpose and human-like