Moby Dick | Essays and Criticism

  • The Symbol of the Whale

    In the following essay, R. Moore explores the whale as a symbol in Moby Dick and the meanings associated with this symbolic motif.

  • Moby-Dick: An Overview

    In the following essay, Clark Davis describes how Moby-Dick reflects its author’s philosophical, religious, and social ideals.

  • The Narrator of Moby-Dick

    William B. Dillingham, in the following excerpt, sees the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, as a character who represents Melville’s theme of the isolation of individuals from the rest of humanity.

  • Seven Moby-Dicks

    In this excerpt, John Parke discusses the novel as being Melville’s examination of the nature of evil.

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