Moby Dick Qoutes Ch.36 And 86
Quotes from Moby Dick
Chapter 36
Capitalism-
On Pg. 170 Ahab says "All ye mast headers have before now heard me give orders of a white whale. Look ye! D'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold? It is a sixteen dollar piece men. Whoever of ye raises me a white headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw, he shall have this gold ounce.
This example relates to capitalism because Ahab uses money as a way to motivate his men much like money is used as a motivator in a capitalist society.
Transcendentalism-
On Pg.172 and 173 Ahab talks about his feelings toward moby dick. Ahabs feelings are a twisted view on reality that relate to transcadentalism because he believes that getting revenge on the whale is worth risking his life and other mens lives. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event . . . some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through......
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