481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
The History of Literature
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Shakespeare, the Bible, and Carlisle
Melville was an avid reader. He loved Hawthorne stories for their darkness. When writing Moby Dick, he had recently discovered Shakespeare. Ahab is a tragic figure. It's his fatal flaw that does him in. The book is steeped in good versus evil,. religious impulses and different sects as ECTS. And like Melville, the characters are steeped in the stories of the Bible.
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