Moby Dick Research Paper

Moby Dick considered the American epic of its time was written by an ex-whaler named Herman Melville. Melville had many influences on his writing, but the most important was that of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville's idol. The Essex was a whaling ship that was used a lot in her day. But in “In the Heart of the Sea” the Essex had just been repaired and was ready to set sail. The goal was to get barrels upon barrels of whale oil, but that was not what awaited them. Moby Dick was not at all received well by anyone who read it when it was first published. Only after Melville died did Moby Dick receive its fame. Ron Howard was a director who wanted to do his own spin on “Moby Dick”, but he wanted to do something no one else had done before. He did

This tenet refers to being who you want to be not the “norm”. A scene that personifies this tenet is when in “In the Heart of the Sea” after Chase and the men just left the island, leaving behind a few men who wanted to stay, when the first man dies on the little boats and Chase tells the men “ don’t throw away a source of food.” Truth could be found inside oneself or seen through one’s inner feelings and intuition. This part of the tenet Emotionalism means that by the way someone acts and what they say you can find truth in their actions. The scene where the first whale is killed by Chase and he silently honors the whale, which is close to the aspect of this tenet, but nothing like glorification of nature, the next tenet of

This means that what man hasn’t touched is seen as perfect. When Moby Dick is testing Chase with the close and personal stare down to have Chase decide to either not throw or throw the spear at Moby Dick was the scene that most closely coincided. Also, the artistic creations of the “uncivilized” population, the lore and art of the peasantry, were very sought after for their natural, unspoiled quality. This closely means the same thing as the previous tenant (Primitivism) of Romanticism. And the scene that most closely resembled this aspect is When the crew arrives in Ecuador and hears the first tale of Moby Dick from an ex-ship captain. But because the ex-captain refuses to go back and report what happened, he was very unpatriotic, which is the exact opposite of the next tenet Glorification of