Moby Dick

Symbols play an extensive role in the plot of the novel Moby-Dick. This essay intends to explore the role of symbols in expressing and manifesting myriad complex themes interwoven throughout the plot of the novel. Herman Melville is one of the eminent authors of American literature and his epoch-making novel,…

Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a story about a mad man who hunts a whale. The whale later comes to be known as Moby Dick. The plot begins with a man named Ishmael arriving in Massachusetts. He shares a room with a harpooner named Queequeg. The two become close…