481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
The History of Literature
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The Legend of Carlisle
Carlisle was an advocate of the great man theory of history and ahab here is our great man. He came to advocate for what he called natural supernaturalism. All things are clothes that reveal and conceal the divine, which should sound familiar to anyone who spent some time with Melville's ishmael quote. A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one end quote. Quequag and Ishmael: Question mark, some kind of brotherhood question.
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