Captain Ahab's Insane Quest

Words: 273
Pages: 2

This quote explains the true motives behind Captain Ahab’s insane quest and it investigates upon Ahab’s character and its connection with one of the prevalent theme, madness. Captain Ahab lost his leg to a white whale on a whaling voyage. Ever since then, he has been on a impossible mission to revenge against this one particular whale. In most cases, people would examine this accident of Ahab’s as a mere consequence of the dangerousness of whaling. However, Ahab passionately believes that losing his leg is an evidence of the superficial evil forces that exists in this world punishing him. He also firmly believes that Moby Dick is evil himself disguised, “all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified”.