Herman melville’s mobydick is an american classic filled with symbolic meaning. one of the most important symbols in the story is the white whale mobydick. there are various interpretations of what the whale represents. based on the following excerpt, what is one interpretation of mobydick as a symbol in the novel? and now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe. as now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks. these floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast to the oars to lash them across. a) the desperation of a trapped animal b) the uncontrollable power of nature c) the difference between mankind and wildlife d) the conquering impulse of mankind

The correct answer is B. The uncontrollable power of nature

Explanation:

Mobydick by Herman Melville is one of the most famous novels in American literature and it focuses on the captain Ahab as he tried to revenge and killed a white whale or Mobydick. Additionally, due to the nature of this narrative there are multiple interpretations on the whale, in the case of the excerpt presented, this mainly shows the way in which the whale approaches and with different parts of its body, especially its jaw attacks and destroys the boat while Ahab observe furiously, until the whale leaves and everything is a chaos. The ideas presented in this excerpt mainly shows men are unable to conquer nature as despite Ahab feelings he could not stop the whale and also show nature can have a destructive power that cannot be controlled. Therefore, according to this excerpt Mobydick symbolizes the uncontrollable power of nature.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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