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Herman Melville’s famous novel, Moby Dick, contains plenty of symbolism. Almost

everything in the novel symbolizes something else. Perhaps the most important and most

obvious symbol is the great white whale, Moby Dick. Moby Dick symbolizes tremendous

and furious power. Along with this strength, comes the sailors intention to defeat it.

This whale has immeasurable strength. His power is expressed in the many

encounters he has with the ships and the crew. A quotation from Moby Dick says, “It was

hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered, at such or such a

time, or on such or such meridian, a sperm whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity,

which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them.�

Another quote says, “therefore it was, that those that by accident ignorantly gave battle to

Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the......

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