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Herman Melville Moby Dick

Herman Melville Moby Dick. If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. First Journal: Obsession. Have you ever been obsessed about something? Then define what obsession is to you or the difference between obsession and compulsion?.

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Herman Melville Moby Dick

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  1. Herman Melville Moby Dick If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

  2. First Journal: Obsession • Have you ever been obsessed about something? • Then define what obsession is to you or the difference between obsession and compulsion?

  3. South Dakota Gem Stonethe Fairburn Agate

  4. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) • The third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melville • His father died when Herman was 12 leaving the family in financial hardship • He worked as a surveyor for the Eerie canal and as a school teacher before becoming a cabin boy in 1939 and joining the whaler Acushneton January 3, 1841 in New Bedford Mass. • His years at sea are the basis for the novels: Typee, Omoo, and Moby Dick.

  5. Melville… • In 1847 Melville married Elisabeth Shaw, daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts. • After three years in New York, he bought a farm, "Arrowhead", near Nathaniel Hawthorne's home at Pittsfield, Massachusetts • One of Melville's sources was an article by Jeremiah N. Reynolds, entitled 'Mocha Dick: Or, the White Whale of the Pacific' (1839). It told about an albino sperm whale, which was said to have sunk ships, drowned men, and harpooned many times. • Hawthorne encouraged him to change Moby Dick from a story full of details about whaling, into an allegorical novel.

  6. Melville… • Melville's Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and it sold only some 3,000 copies during his lifetime. Its original title was The Whale, when it was published in London in October 1851 • In 1891, Melville died never gaining the monetary or literary fame he thought he deserved • In the 1920’s, Melville’s writing is re-discovered by literary scholars and he is finally recognized as one of America’s finest writers

  7. Examples of Conflict in Moby Dick • Man vs. Nature • Land vs. Sea • Man vs. Man • Man vs. Himself • Man vs. Society • Man vs. God

  8. The Science of Conflict • Hegelian Dialectic: Euripides and Olympus vs. Humanity • Science: matter vs. anti-matter proton vs. electron • Math: positive and negative integers • Philosophy: Ying and Yang • Society: proletariat vs. bourgeois • Monetarily: hard currency vs. fiat currency • Literary: protagonist vs. antagonist

  9. Ergo…Final Journal Question • In our reading, Captain Ahab gives a impassioned speech about the whale and convinces the crew to follow him on this mad quest for revenge, why do they go along? • Why do rational people follow irrational leaders?

  10. Work Citied • http://www.melville.org/hmquotes.htm • http://kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm • http://www.online-literature.com • http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/greatbooks-mobydick/

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