Moby Dick 4

Moby Dick What the White Whale Symbolizes I looked at chapter 42, “The Whiteness of the Whale”, and how Melville uses symbolism of color. In many parts of the world the color white has a religious meaning, it gives a god like appearance. To Captain Ahab he has a totally different outlook of the White Whale. To him the whale represents all things evil in the world and Hermen Melville points out that it is not …showed first 75 words of 804 total…

…showed last 75 words of 804 total…not have just one view point. He wants us to be like Ishmel who really think hard about the meaning of the color white. To analyze all the possible different meanings and he does this with all of the examples he gives us. Melville shows us that Moby Dick can represent all of these things in the chapter. So Moby Dick isn’t symbolic of only one thing but of all things in the universe. .