What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face for, man?

You’re not the only reader out there to equivocate Moby-Dick to a labyrinth. Melville’s seemingly irrelevant chapters and lengthy descriptions through the narrator, Ishmael, serves to heighten the complexity. How does the existence of Ishmael affect the overall way the story is told? Well, Melville is obviously alluding to the Book of Genesis in the [...]

When one ponders “nineteenth-century novels,” most people would picture a bunch of elderly white men in powdered wigs signing the Constitution. Wrong. Apart from the fact that they are in the wrong century, the nineteenth-century novel–Moby Dick–has naught to do with Christian morals, piety, and manners. The crew resembles quite the opposite; the Pequod is [...]

A prominent scholar of literature is not the only individual worthy of analyzing and interpreting the symbols that Melville left so elusively in his well-renowned but none-too-concise novel, Moby-Dick. Greetings, prospective readers—and I say “prospective” for now, for after who finish reading this blog, it is my hope that many of you will realize the [...]

Welcome to my blog! Though this page was created as part of my AP Lit grade, I truly am interested in debunking the myth that only the highest scholars of literature in the world can understand Moby Dick.