who new moby dick was a sperm whale that ate seaman?

Answer 1

there was a real-life albino sperm whale, known as Mocha Dick that lived near the island of Mocha off Chile's southern coast, several decades before Melville wrote his book. Mocha Dick, like Moby Dick in Melville's story, had escaped countless times from the attacks of whalers, whom he would often attack with premeditated ferocity, and consequently had dozens of harpoons in his back. Mocha Dick was eventually killed in the 1830s. No one knows what prompted Melville to change the name "Mocha" to "Moby", but given that Mocha Dick was an albino sperm whale, it seems highly probable that Melville used him as a basis for his book.

Answer 2

American author, maximum appropriate-huge-spread for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece MOBY-DICK (1851), a whaling adventure committed to Nathaniel Hawthorne. "I actually have written a wicked e book and sense as spotless because the lamb," Melville wrote to Hawthorne. The paintings replaced into in reality called a masterpiece 30 years after Melville's death. TYPEE (1846), a fictionalized commute narrative, replaced into the author's maximum customary e book in the time of his lifetime. "All that maximum maddens and torments; all that stirs up the a lot less of issues; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and tarts the mind; all the comfortable demonisms of existence and idea; all evil, to stupid Ahab, were visibly personified, and made just about assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the overall rage and hate felt by ability of his total race from Adam down; and then, as if chest were a mortar, he burst his warm heart's shell upon it." (from Moby-Dick). Moby-Dick will be study as an exhilarating sea tale, an exam of the conflict between guy and nature – the conflict between Ahab and the whale is open to many interpretations. that's a pioneer novel although the prairie is now sea, or an allegory on the Gold Rush, yet now the gold is a whale. Jorge Luis Borges has considered in the universe of Moby-Dick "a cosmos (a chaos) no longer in reality perceptibly malignant because the Gnostics had intuited, yet also irrational, like the cosmos in the hexameters of Lucretius." (from the total Library, 1999) Clare Spark has appropriate in searching Captain Ahab (2001) diverse interpretations with replacing political ecosystem – counting on the attitude, Ahab has been recognized as a Promethean hero or a forefather of the twentieth-century totalitarian dictators. The director John Huston questions in his movie version (1956) which one, Ahab or the whale, is the authentic Monster. Ray Bradbury, with whom Huston wrote the screenplay, had to conflict with the exhibit Writers' Guild over his credit. In Bradbury's version, the whale is destructed....

Answer 3

sounds like someone is trying to hide his personal life by making a moby dick reference. Tsk Tsk.

Answer 4

Gobble

Answer 5

It's a book that's been required reading in most middle or high schools for a while now I believe.

Answer 6

a turkey named Gobble the salty seaman! He was his captains first mate.

Answer 7

you are a real dumb a-s Who new? Who Knew! Seamen?
semen.

Answer 8

HaHaLOL, thats pretty funny!

Answer 9

LOL, you have a filthy mind!

Answer 10

i didn't know that. i need to read more