On the other hand, the whiteness of the whale, as he suggest, has come to man both tranquility and good, as well as terror and evil. So, when we talk about Ahab and Moby-Dick, we must realize that in many cases we speak not of black as an evil and white as the good, but something in the middle. Ahab gives credit for his maleficent self to Moby-Dick. Ahab is a character who seeks to destroy evil with evil. Melville seems to say in portraying this great character, that Ahab's individualism was selfish and greedy and evil rather than selfless and in some degree, helpful to his fellow men. It is seen both in his speaking to his crew and one passion that makes him to see only one victory over everything, what is something like engine that makes him to stay alive – "Death to Moby-Dick!" (239)… Vengeance and evil are the most powerful weapons in this case…




















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