/lit/ - Literature

>>12082437
I am Ahab, and this is my diary, desu.

>got his whole crew killed
>didn't even kill the fucking whale
He did some things wrong along the way, I'm pretty sure.

>>12082437
NEVER use ur crush as a metaphor for mobydick without reading the book first

big mistake on my part i thought it hada happy ending

>>12082748
Hey they knew the risks signing up, and Ishmael makes it at the end
>>12082759
haha based

>>12082759
To be fair early movie adaptations of the book had happy endings

>>12082437
>speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me
>gets royally BTFO by big Dick
Didn't he think of what the sun might do if he insulted it?

>>12082437
u mean punished snake

>>12082748
Just because you fail doesnt mean you didnt make every correct decision

>>12083134
This. And Starbuck literally warns him about this.

>"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."

If we consider Moby-Dick as a mere animal, then it's not like some sort of human who's committed a crime. It's an expression of the universe, and of the God who controls the universe. What Ahab really wants is vengeance on God. He sees the whale as merely God's agent in crippling him, and seeks to hurt God by destroying his agent. And one might say he pays the price for the "blasphemy" that Starbuck accuses him of.

>>12083134
That’s the point desu

>>12083134
“Well, well, what's signed, is signed; and what's to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won't be, after all.”