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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg/330px-Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg/440px-Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="920" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Ahab in his final chase with Moby Dick, by <a href="/wiki/I._W._Taber" title="I. W. Taber">I. W. Taber</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname</th><td class="infobox-data">Old Thunder</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data">Male</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data">Captain</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sea_captain" title="Sea captain">Sea captain</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Unnamed wife</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Unnamed son</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quaker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">American</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Captain Ahab</b> is a fictional character and one of the <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonists</a> in <a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick</a></i> (1851). He is the <a href="/wiki/Monomania" title="Monomania">monomaniacal</a> captain of the whaling ship <i><a href="/wiki/Pequod_(Moby-Dick)" title="Pequod (Moby-Dick)">Pequod</a></i>. On a previous voyage, the white whale <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(whale)" title="Moby Dick (whale)">Moby Dick</a> bit off Ahab's leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory. The whaling voyage of the <i>Pequod</i> ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags him to his death beneath the sea and sinks the <i>Pequod</i>. </p><p>Melville biographer <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Delbanco" title="Andrew Delbanco">Andrew Delbanco</a> calls Ahab "a brilliant personification of the very essence of fanaticism".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholar <a href="/wiki/F._O._Matthiessen" title="F. O. Matthiessen">F. O. Matthiessen</a> calls attention to the fact that Ahab is called an "ungodly god-like man". Ahab's "tragedy is that of an unregenerate will" whose "burning mind is barred out from the exuberance of love" and argues that he "remains damned".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writer <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a> felt little sympathy for Ahab and found that the whale should have "torn off both his legs, and a bit more besides".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The character of Ahab was created under the influence of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>'s lecture on <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> and figures in biblical and classical literature such as <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">Milton</a>. His prosthesis, for instance, has been taken for an allusion to the <a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a> myth.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahab is firmly established in popular culture by cartoons, comic books, films and plays. Most famously, he provided <a href="/wiki/J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a> with the model for his <a href="/wiki/Captain_Hook" title="Captain Hook">Captain Hook</a> character, who is obsessed with not a whale but a crocodile.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahab was named by his insane, widowed mother, who died when he was twelve months old. The etymology of the name Ahab derives from the Hebrew, meaning "father's brother" as cited in Strong's Concordance no. 256.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At age 18, Ahab first took to sea as a <a href="/wiki/Harpoon" title="Harpoon">harpooner</a>. Less than three voyages earlier, Ahab married a girl, with whom he had a young son. He had been in colleges and among the cannibals and had seen deeper wonders than the waves. He had fixed his lance, the keenest and surest on the isle of <a href="/wiki/Nantucket" title="Nantucket">Nantucket</a>, in stranger foes than whales. </p><p>Years ago, Peleg, now the co-owner of <i>Pequod</i>, sailed as mate under Ahab. During that voyage, a typhoon near Japan swung her three masts overboard. Every moment, the crew thought the ship would sink, the sea breaking over the ship. Yet, instead of thinking of death, Ahab and Peleg thought of how to save all hands, and how to rig temporary masts in order to get into the nearest port and make repairs. </p><p>Before the ship sails from Nantucket, Ishmael encounters a man named Elijah, who tells him about some of Ahab's past deeds. According to Elijah, Ahab once lay near death for three days and nights near <a href="/wiki/Cape_Horn" title="Cape Horn">Cape Horn</a>, took part in a deadly battle against Spanish forces before an altar in Santa, and spat into its silver chalice. Ahab lost his leg during his most recent whaling voyage, leaving him with a grim disposition and a strong desire for revenge against Moby Dick. </p><p>In addition to the prosthetic leg, Ahab has a mark that runs down one side of his face and neck: “Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it...leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.” –(<i>Moby-Dick</i>, p. 129.) The mark and its origins – whether a birthmark, the scar from a wound, or otherwise – are rarely mentioned or discussed. Ahab's leg includes a small flat patch that he uses as a slate for making navigational calculations. The deck planks of <i>Pequod</i> have been bored with shallow holes, the same diameter as the lower end, to allow him to steady himself against the motion of the ship. While at sea, he turns to the ship's carpenter and blacksmith to fashion a replacement leg and fittings after damaging the one he wears. </p><p>Ahab is age 58 at the time of <i>Pequod</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s last voyage. Peleg and Bildad pilot the ship out of the harbor, and Ahab first appears on deck when the ship is already at sea. Instead of embarking on a regular whaling voyage, Ahab declares he is out for revenge and nails a <a href="/wiki/Doubloon" title="Doubloon">doubloon</a> to the mast, as a reward for the crewmember who first sights Moby Dick. As the voyage proceeds, Ahab gradually abandons the physical comforts of his life, symbolized by such actions as throwing his pipe overboard and giving his shaving razors to the ship's blacksmith for use in forging a special harpoon he intends to use against Moby Dick. When the whale is eventually sighted, a disastrous three-day chase begins. Ahab throws his harpoon and hits Moby Dick, but its line wraps around his neck and drags him off his boat when the whale dives, drowning him. </p><p>Peleg refers to Ahab respectfully as a "grand, ungodly, god-like man", but he is also nicknamed "Old Thunder". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Concept_and_creation">Concept and creation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Concept and creation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Melville biographer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leon_Howard_(scholar)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leon Howard (scholar) (page does not exist)">Leon Howard</a>, "Ahab is a Shakespearean tragic hero, created according to the Coleridgean formula."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The creation of Ahab, who apparently does not derive from any captain Melville sailed under, was heavily influenced by the observation in <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>'s lecture on <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> that "one of Shakespeare's modes of creating characters is to conceive any one intellectual or moral faculty in <i>morbid</i> excess, and then to place himself ... thus <i>mutilated</i> or <i>diseased</i>, under given circumstances."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whenever <i>Moby-Dick</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s narrator comments on Captain Ahab as an artistic creation, the language of Coleridge's lecture appears: "at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half-wilful <i>over-ruling morbidness</i> at the bottom of his nature." All men "tragically great," Ishmael says, "are made so through a certain <i>morbidness.</i>" All mortal greatness "is but <i>disease</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahab's speech combines Quaker archaism with Shakespeare's idiom to serve as "a homegrown analogue to blank verse."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahab's death seems to be based on an actual event. On May 18, 1843, Melville was aboard <i>The Star</i>, which sailed for <a href="/wiki/Honolulu" title="Honolulu">Honolulu</a>. Aboard were two sailors from the ship <i>Nantucket</i>, who could have told him that they had seen their second mate "taken out of a whaleboat by a foul line and drowned, as is Captain Ahab of <i>Moby-Dick</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ahab_allegorically_regarded">Ahab allegorically regarded</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ahab allegorically regarded"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahab's character is shaped by mythic and literary patterns that overlap and reinforce each other in such a complementary way that "the apparent irony of one allusion is frequently the truth of another."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For instance, allusions to Oedipus, which flesh out Ahab's ignorance and lack of self-knowledge, are complemented by references to <a href="/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)" title="Narcissus (mythology)">Narcissus</a>, which evoke the psychological causes for his ignorance.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ahab's use of a spade for a crutch in Chapter 70, "The Sphinx," reminds the reader that he is lame, like Oedipus, and also wounded, like Prometheus.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_73_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_73-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Ahab should be considered both in relation to the allusions and in contrast to the other characters.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King_Ahab_(Old_Testament)"><span id="King_Ahab_.28Old_Testament.29"></span>King Ahab (Old Testament)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: King Ahab (Old Testament)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahab is named for the biblical story of <a href="/wiki/Ahab" title="Ahab">Ahab</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">Books of Kings</a> 16:28–22:40, the evil idol-worshipping ruler. This association prompts Ishmael to ask, after first hearing Ahab's name: "When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?" He is rebuked by one of Ahab's colleagues, who points out that "He did not name himself."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For Melville's allegory the single most important thing was that Ahab "did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him" in 16:30–31.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The biblical Ahab foreshadows the tragic end of Captain Ahab and the essential duality of his character. Both Ahabs are shrewd in their secular associations. The captain is successful in whaling, with a record of forty years. "The very evidence of this success," Nathalia Wright observes, "is fantastically like that in King Ahab's story: Captain Ahab, too, lives in an ivory house, 'the ivory <i>Pequod</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span> as it is often called, tricked out in trophies of whale bones and teeth from profitable voyages."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship's last voyage, however, is not entirely commercial: from the moment Ahab attaches the golden doubloon on the mast, it becomes a pursuit of a perceived enemy, under a captain unable to compromise. King Ahab, an able politician but a patron of foreign gods, offended Jehovah (YHWH) by introducing Baal as a god. Jehovah tolerated no other gods and contrived with prophets to destroy King Ahab.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like his eponym, Captain Ahab worships pagan gods, particularly the spirit of fire. Fedallah the <a href="/wiki/Parsis" title="Parsis">Parsee</a>, his harpooner, is a fire-worshipping <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrian</a>. Fedallah makes three prophecies regarding Ahab's death: </p> <ul><li>That before he dies, he must see two <a href="/wiki/Hearse" title="Hearse">hearses</a>, one not made by human hands and one built from American wood</li> <li>That Fedallah will die before him and serve as his pilot into death</li> <li>That only hemp can kill him</li></ul> <p>Ahab interprets these prophecies to mean that he cannot die on land or sea, but they prove to be accurate if cryptic predictions of his death.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fedallah is swept off Ahab's whaleboat during the final three-day chase, and Ahab later sees his corpse bound to Moby Dick with a harpoon line. The whale proves to be the first of the two hearses; the <i>Pequod</i> becomes the second when it sinks with the loss of all hands aboard. The line around Ahab's neck serves as the fatal hemp, and Moby Dick's final dive allows Fedallah to lead Ahab to his death. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King_Lear_(Shakespeare)"><span id="King_Lear_.28Shakespeare.29"></span>King Lear (Shakespeare)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: King Lear (Shakespeare)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Charles_Olson" title="Charles Olson">Charles Olson</a> mentions three modes of madness in <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i>, the King's, the Fool's, and Edgar's, allegorized in the book, with Ahab taking the role of Lear and Pip the roles of both the Fool and Edgar.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melville makes his points by way of contrasts to Shakespeare. Olson identifies the typhoon in chapter 119, "The Candles," with the storm in <i>Lear</i>. "Ahab, unlike Lear," Olson observes, "does not in this night of storm discover his love for his fellow wretches. On the contrary, this night Ahab uncovers his whole hate."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, in chapter 125, "The Log and Line," Ahab says to Pip, in Lear's words to his Fool, "Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou are tied to me by chords woven of my heart-strings."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Sweeney endorses Olson's identification, he finds exaggerated the claim that Ahab learns from his cabin-boy just as Lear does from the Fool. Ahab learns "little or nothing" throughout the book.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Satan_(Milton)"><span id="Satan_.28Milton.29"></span>Satan (Milton)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Satan (Milton)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Milton's Satan is "not the least element of which Captain Ahab is compounded," says Nathalia Wright.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The words with which Ishmael and Starbuck portray him—infidel, impious, diabolic, blasphemous—describe him as a towering rebel. </p><p>In "The Candles" (Ch 119) Ahab's harpoon is called a "fiery dart." The phrase is taken from book XII of <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>, as Henry F. Pommer recognized, where Michael promised Adam "spiritual armour, able to resist/ Satan's assaults, and quench his <i>fiery darts</i>" (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Paradise_lost_by_Milton,_John.djvu/423">XII, 491-2</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pommer argues that Milton's work was more immediate than Shakespeare, because while some of Melville's soliloquies appear to find their prototypes in Shakespeare, "there is a slight step from dramatic monologue to fictional thought," and Milton "had already taken that step, using, in his own extended narrative, soliloquies precisely like Melville's."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further allusions identify Ahab with Satan. Milton's scene set in Hell includes the lines "Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit/Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste/With spattering noise rejected" (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Paradise_lost_by_Milton,_John.djvu/347">X, 565–567</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and<i> Moby-Dick</i> chapter 132, "The Symphony," has "like a blighted fruit-tree he [Ahab] shook, and cast his last, <i>cindered</i> apple to the soil."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the last day of the chase, Ahab evokes the Creation: ""What a lovely day again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summerhouse to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world." Later that day Moby Dick, "seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven," sinks the ship. Tashtego hammers a sky-hawk to the mast: "And so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upward, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven with her, and helmeted herself with it." Pommer finds "most impressive of all" the Latin in chapter 113, "The Forge," with which Ahab cries: "<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli</i></span>."("I baptize thee not in the name of the Father but in the name of the devil").<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahab's scar may have been modeled on the description of Satan's face, which "Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd." (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NJVrexCHfzEC&dq=Deep+scars+of+thunder+had+intrench%27d+Milton&pg=PA31">I, 600–601</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The greatness and woe of both Satan and Ahab lies in pride. "The proud person," Pommer explains, "believing that he deserves treatment appropriate to his self-inflated dignity, is quick to anger when he receives a less welcome treatment. At the exaltation of the Messiah, Satan 'could not bear/Through pride that sight, and thought himself impair'd.'" Satan's "sense of injur'd merit" is reported in his first speech in Hell. Ahab's story, caused by Moby Dick biting off his leg, follows the same psychological pattern of being spiritually and physically impaired.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prometheus_(Aeschylus)"><span id="Prometheus_.28Aeschylus.29"></span>Prometheus (Aeschylus)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Prometheus (Aeschylus)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Overlapping with <i>Lear</i>, the typhoon scene in "The Candles" also seems to be Melville's recreation of the mythic theft of fire. <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a> accomplished his theft by the stealthy hiding of the divine spark in a fennel stalk. In contrast, "Ahab's theft is a boldly defiant deed, set amidst elemental nature in furious eruption."<sup id="cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_37_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_37-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The whole business of whaling is a theft of fire, for the sperm whale's oil is used as fuel for flames. The hunt for the White Whale, described by Ishmael as "the fiery hunt," thus represents a conflict with a deity—hence the references to Moby Dick as a god.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_37_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_37-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ahab waving the fiery harpoon is Melville's "modified equivalent of Prometheus's smuggling from heaven the fire-laden fennel stalk."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Prometheus and Ahab try to alter or reverse "the supernatural design, and herein lies the acme of their tragic hubris." Prometheus, mistakenly convinced that <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> planned the destruction of man, stole fire in order to contravene the will of the god; Ahab, thinking his mind can penetrate the mystery of evil, is convinced that killing Moby Dick will "expel evil from the cosmos."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a tragedy a hero has a mad counterpart: <i>Prometheus</i> has <a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a>, <i>Moby-Dick</i> has Pip. The madness of Io and Pip is caused by their unintentional contact with the primal elements or with the deity. "The Pip who dances and shakes his <a href="/wiki/Tambourine" title="Tambourine">tambourine</a> before Queequeg's coffin," Sweeney compares, "is clearly a maniac, completely detached from his former personality." Likewise, Io, tortured by the gadfly, "bursts upon the stage in a wild dance...While on the stage, Io speaks with a disjointed frenzy much the same as Pip's."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oedipus_(Sophocles)"><span id="Oedipus_.28Sophocles.29"></span>Oedipus (Sophocles)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Oedipus (Sophocles)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In "The Candles," Ahab is temporarily stricken by blindness, an allusion to the <a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a> myth.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the chapter "The Sphynx," Ahab stands before a sperm whale's head hanging from the side of his ship: "it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert." Ahab orders the head to "tell us the secret thing that is in thee." Here Ahab resembles Oedipus and the monster of Thebes, the more for his using a spade alternatively as both a crutch and as a tool with which to dissect the whale. Oedipus' staff, Sweeney notes, is both "a walking tool and the murder weapon with which he killed his father."<sup id="cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_73_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_73-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Promethean and Oedipean sides of Ahab connect in this chapter by way of the crutch. In addition to this, blindness is alluded to. Oedipus and Ahab are intelligent and ignorant at the same time, excessively proud, and both face a riddle (the mystery of evil).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Narcissus_(Ovid)"><span id="Narcissus_.28Ovid.29"></span>Narcissus (Ovid)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Narcissus (Ovid)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The opening chapter contains an extended allusion to "that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned" (Ch. 1, "Loomings"). Ahab does not realize that the malice he sees in the White Whale is his own, "wildly projected."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His Narcissistic self-delusion (he is unaware that he sees himself in the whale) complements "his Oedipean self-ignorance" (he does not know who he really is). The Narcissus myth also explains why Ahab, unlike Oedipus, remains self-ignorant. While two messengers enlight Oedipus and separate him from his obsession, Narcissus and Ahab are never interrupted from theirs. The contrast between Narcissus and Ahab is that the first contemplates a beautiful image which he loves, while Ahab projects an evil image which he hates, which Sweeney calls "an ironic reversal on Melville's part."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In several ways Ahab and Moby Dick resemble each other: </p> <ul><li>both are described with images of royalty, divinity, and archeology.</li> <li>both share physical features, they are scarred or wounded, and each has a prominent brow or forehead.</li> <li>both share the same internal characteristics: isolated, stubborn, vengeful, quickly enraged.</li> <li>Finally, both are "ultimately unknowable." According to Ishmael in "The Nut," all things that are mighty wear "a false brow to the common world."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ahab hates the mask as much as he does the thing itself.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fedallah_as_Echo">Fedallah as Echo</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Fedallah as Echo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A subtle connection between Ahab, Moby Dick and Fedallah is formed by the imagery of the brow and forehead. According to Sweeney, Fedallah is "clearly an external projection of Ahab's own depravity" and at the same time a double of what Ahab finds most evil in the whale.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fedallah is several times described using "phantom" imagery in the chapter "Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah." In <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>'s myth Narcissus has an airy counterpart in the speech-deprived nymph <a href="/wiki/Echo_(mythology)" title="Echo (mythology)">Echo</a>, who can only repeat the sounds she hears. Echo is an auditory complement to the visual reflection and a foreshadowing of Narcissus' death. In the same way Fedallah, who only says what Ahab wants to hear, is an auditory reflection of Ahab's evil, of which Moby Dick is the visual reflection. Fedallah foreshadows Ahab's death.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical">Critical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Critical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the book was first published, reviewers mostly focused on Ahab and the whale. According to George Ripley in <i>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</i> for December 1851, Ahab "becomes the victim of a deep, cunning monomania; believes himself predestined to take a bloody revenge on his fearful enemy; pursues him with fierce demoniac energy of purpose."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ripley admires the creation of Ahab, who "opens upon us with wonderful power. He exercises a wild, bewildering fascination by his dark and mysterious nature."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the onset of Melville's rediscovery there was no change of emphasis on Ahab and his struggle with the whale.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1950s and 1960s literary scholars shifted their attention to narrative technique and point of view, which for Melville studies meant that the spotlight switched from Ahab to Ishmael.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films,_television_and_video"><span id="Films.2C_television_and_video"></span>Films, television and video</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Films, television and video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg/220px-Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg/330px-Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg/440px-Sea_Beast_film_still_6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="539" data-file-height="721" /></a><figcaption>John Barrymore as Ahab Ceeley in <i>The Sea Beast</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The first two film adaptations show "the radical surgery that Hollywood performed on Herman Melville's masterpiece."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first was a 1926 silent movie, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_Beast_(1926_film)" title="The Sea Beast (1926 film)">The Sea Beast</a></i>, a romantic love story in which the character of Ahab (<a href="/wiki/John_Barrymore" title="John Barrymore">John Barrymore</a>) is transformed into "a handsome young sailor",<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a New Bedford harpooner who has little in common with Ahab, not even his full name, which is extended to Ahab Ceeley. Though, in the book, Ahab has already lost his leg, in the film, a "crude papier mache monster" bites it off.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the movie opened on Broadway, it made $20,000 a week and ran longer than any Warner film up to that time.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Barrymore is also Ahab in the <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1930_film)" title="Moby Dick (1930 film)">1930 <i>Moby Dick</i></a>. Ahab is "shrieking in pain" as the ship's (called <i>Mary-Ann</i>) blacksmith holds a fiery, hot-bladed tool against his stump.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Again, the whale is just a means to separate lovers. In another divergence from the book, Ahab's sweetheart is the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Father_Mapple" title="Father Mapple">Father Mapple</a>. Once again, it became a hit at the box office.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1955, <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> played Ahab in a filmed production of his play <i><a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_Rehearsed" class="mw-redirect" title="Moby Dick Rehearsed">Moby Dick Rehearsed</a></i>; however, this film is considered "lost". </p><p>Warner Brothers' <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)" title="Moby Dick (1956 film)">third adaptation</a> was directed in 1956 by <a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a>, with a script by <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, the first serious attempt to follow the book.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Completion of the script took a year, filming another year, and editing and scoring a third year. <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a>'s Ahab is a "stern authoritarian Lincoln in black." The otherwise positive reviews agreed that Peck was unsuited for the part.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There have been two French film versions of <i>Moby Dick</i>: <i><a href="/wiki/Capitaine_Achab" title="Capitaine Achab">Capitaine Achab</a></i> (2004), starring Frédéric Bonpart and <i>Capitaine Achabin</i> (2007) starring <a href="/wiki/Denis_Lavant" title="Denis Lavant">Denis Lavant</a>. </p><p>Ahab has been portrayed on television, beginning with <a href="/wiki/Victor_Jory" title="Victor Jory">Victor Jory</a>'s portrayal in 1954 on the <i><a href="/wiki/Hallmark_Hall_of_Fame" title="Hallmark Hall of Fame">Hallmark Hall of Fame</a></i> and including portrayals by <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Stewart" title="Patrick Stewart">Patrick Stewart</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1998_miniseries)" title="Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)">1998 mini-series</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Hurt" title="William Hurt">William Hurt</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(2011_miniseries)" title="Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)">2011 mini-series</a>. In films that were released directly to video, Captain Ahab was played by <a href="/wiki/Barry_Bostwick" title="Barry Bostwick">Barry Bostwick</a> in <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(2010_film)" title="Moby Dick (2010 film)">a 2010 modern re-imagining of <i>Moby Dick</i></a>, and by <a href="/wiki/Danny_Glover" title="Danny Glover">Danny Glover</a> in the 2011 film <i><a href="/wiki/Age_of_the_Dragons" title="Age of the Dragons">Age of the Dragons</a></i>, a fantasy-themed re-imagining. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan" title="Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan">Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</a></i> (1982), <a href="/wiki/Khan_Noonien_Singh" title="Khan Noonien Singh">Khan</a>'s pursuit of <a href="/wiki/James_T._Kirk" title="James T. Kirk">Captain Kirk</a> focuses on the theme of vengeance, and <i>The Wrath of Khan</i> borrows heavily from <i>Moby-Dick</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-hinds-ahab_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinds-ahab-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To make the parallels clear, there is a copy of <i>Moby-Dick</i> in Khan's dwelling.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Khan liberally paraphrases Ahab, with "I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the <a href="/wiki/Antares" title="Antares">Antares</a> <a href="/wiki/Whirlpool" title="Whirlpool">maelstrom</a> and round <a href="/wiki/Hell_in_Christianity" title="Hell in Christianity">perdition's flames</a> before I give him up!". Khan quotes Ahab's tirade at the end of the novel verbatim with his final lines: "To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."<sup id="cite_ref-hinds-ahab_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinds-ahab-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the later film <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact" title="Star Trek: First Contact">Star Trek: First Contact</a></i> after <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Captain Picard</a>'s vengeful campaign against the <a href="/wiki/Borg" title="Borg">Borg</a>, actor <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Stewart" title="Patrick Stewart">Patrick Stewart</a> paraphrases Ahab as he laments his own preoccupation with revenge. </p><p><i>Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb</i> is a 2022 four-part sports documentary by <a href="/wiki/Secret_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Base">Secret Base</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jon_Bois" title="Jon Bois">Jon Bois</a> and Alex Rubenstein, about <a href="/wiki/Dave_Stieb" title="Dave Stieb">Dave Stieb</a>, a baseball pitcher, whose pursuit of a <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> is likened to Ahab chasing the white whale.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stieb, who was not involved in the documentary's production, also noted the similarity.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comic_books">Comic books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Comic books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahab appears quite frequently in humorous comic strips and cartoons. Without effort an entire anthology of this material (caricature, gag cartoons, editorial cartoons) could be assembled. The one strip that most often refers to Melville is <i><a href="/wiki/Peanuts" title="Peanuts">Peanuts</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Schulz" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Schulz">Charles Schulz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The futuristic comic book supervillain Ahab uses harpoons. </p><p>An acclaimed version of <i>Moby Dick</i> and Ahab was made by the trio of <a href="/wiki/Argentine" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentine">Argentine</a> artists consisting of <a href="/wiki/Enrique_Breccia" title="Enrique Breccia">Enrique Breccia</a>, Leopoldo Durañona and Guillermo Saccomanno, which was released in a completed and collected <a href="/wiki/Graphic_novel" title="Graphic novel">graphic novel</a> format in 1979. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Games">Games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_V:_The_Phantom_Pain" title="Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain">Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain</a></i>, the story of <a href="/wiki/Venom_Snake" class="mw-redirect" title="Venom Snake">Venom Snake</a> (initially introduced as Ahab) also appears to be somewhat inspired by the fate of Captain Ahab. In addition, the transport helicopter regularly used by the player is referred to as Pequod. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_the_Police" title="This Is the Police">This Is the Police</a></i>, the main character Jack Boyd is frequently compared to Ahab. </p><p>The first boss in the indie game <i>Noitu Love 2</i> – Mordecai Fluke – is based on Ahab. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Limbus_Company" title="Limbus Company">Limbus Company</a></i> during the third part of "Canto V: The Evil Defining", a female version of Captain Ahab's character appears. She was the captain of the Pequod Crew in search of the giant "Pallid Whale", along with the initial crew of Ishmael, Queequeg, Pip, Stubb and Starbuck.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The song "Beneath These Waves" (in the 2005 album <i><a href="/wiki/Touched_by_the_Crimson_King" title="Touched by the Crimson King">Touched by the Crimson King</a></i> from the metal band <a href="/wiki/Demons_%26_Wizards_(band)" title="Demons & Wizards (band)">Demons & Wizards</a>) is about Ahab's will of revenge. </p><p>The alternative metal band <a href="/wiki/Mastodon_(band)" title="Mastodon (band)">Mastodon</a> and their album <i><a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Mastodon_album)" title="Leviathan (Mastodon album)">Leviathan</a></i> references him in one of their songs, with the album being based on <i><a href="/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick</a></i>. </p><p>German doom metal band <a href="/wiki/Ahab_(band)" title="Ahab (band)">Ahab</a> is named after the character. </p><p>Singer <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> references the character in his 1965 song "<a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan%27s_115th_Dream" title="Bob Dylan's 115th Dream">Bob Dylan's 115th Dream</a>" from the album <i><a href="/wiki/Bringing_It_All_Back_Home" title="Bringing It All Back Home">Bringing It All Back Home</a></i>. </p><p>Singer <a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a> also references the character in his song "Shiver Me Timbers" on his 1974 album <i>The Heart of Saturday Night</i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leon_Russell" title="Leon Russell">Leon Russell</a>’s 2010 album <a href="/wiki/The_Union_(Elton_John_and_Leon_Russell_album)" title="The Union (Elton John and Leon Russell album)"><i>The Union</i></a> contains a song called “Hey Ahab” based on the character. </p><p>Hip-hop duo <a href="/wiki/Black_Star_(rap_duo)" title="Black Star (rap duo)">Black Star</a> mentions the sinking of Ahab's ship by Moby Dick on the song "Re:Definition" from their 1998 album <i><a href="/wiki/Mos_Def_%26_Talib_Kweli_Are_Black_Star" title="Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star">Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star</a></i>. </p><p>English rock band <a href="/wiki/Massive_Wagons" title="Massive Wagons">Massive Wagons</a> references Ahab in their 2016 song "The Day We Fell" </p><p>American rock duo Shadow Academy, members <a href="/wiki/Jim_Roach_(producer)" title="Jim Roach (producer)">Jim Roach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Avidan" title="Dan Avidan">Dan Avidan</a>, released the song "White Whale" as their debut in 2022. The songs lyrics are loosely based on <i><a href="/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick</a></i> and the animated video features popular scenes following Captain Ahab. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Ahab&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Delbanco (2005), 166</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Matthiessen (1941), 457 n.5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lawrence (1923), 157</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 73–4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/anwilson/3563080/Moby-Dick-a-modern-tragedy.html">"Moby-Dick – a modern tragedy." <i>The Telegraph</i>, 27 October 2008.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1965" class="citation journal cs1">Williams, David Park (1965). "Hook and Ahab: Barrie's Strange Satire on Melville". <i>PMLA</i>. <b>80</b> (5): <span class="nowrap">483–</span>488. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F460839">10.2307/460839</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/460839">460839</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163344199">163344199</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=PMLA&rft.atitle=Hook+and+Ahab%3A+Barrie%27s+Strange+Satire+on+Melville&rft.volume=80&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E483-%3C%2Fspan%3E488&rft.date=1965&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A163344199%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F460839%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F460839&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=David+Park&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Ahab" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barbour (1986), 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/256.htm">"Strong's Hebrew: 256. אַחְאָב (Achab) -- "father's brother," a king of Isr., also a false prophet"</a>. <i>biblehub.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2024-03-30</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=biblehub.com&rft.atitle=Strong%27s+Hebrew%3A+256.+%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%97%D6%B0%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%91+%28Achab%29+--+%22father%27s+brother%2C%22+a+king+of+Isr.%2C+also+a+false+prophet&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiblehub.com%2Fhebrew%2F256.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Ahab" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howard (1940), 235</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Howard (1940), 231. Howard's italics</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Howard (1940), 231. Howard's italics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Milder (1988), 435</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heflin (2004), 189</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 72</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_73-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_73_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_73_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Moby-Dick</i> Chapter 16. "The Ship"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mansfiel and Vincent (1952), 637</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright (1949), 62</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright (1949), 63</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright (1949), 65</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Olson (1938), in Higgins, ed., 273</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Olson (1947), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/callmeishmael1958olso#page/60/mode/2up/search/%22Ahab+uncovers+his+whole+hate%22">p.60</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Olson (1947), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/callmeishmael1958olso#page/60/mode/2up/search/%22touchest+my+inmost+centre%22">p. 60</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney, 1975, 43.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright (1949), 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Pommer (1950) 93. Pommer's italics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pommer (1950), 55.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Pommer (1950), 66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Pommer (1950), 67 (Pommer's italics), and 93</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pommer (1950), 93</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mansfield and Vincent (1952), 641</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pommer (1950), 95</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sweeney_1975,_37-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_37_35-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sweeney_1975,_37_35-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 38</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 41–42</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 43</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 75</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 74</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 84</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 85</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 86</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 87</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sweeney (1975), 88</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Lee (2001), 331</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cited in Lee (2001), 332</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sealts (1997), 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sealts (1997), 66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone (1975), 179</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone (1975), 172</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Inge (1986), 697</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Inge (1986), 699</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone (1975), 176</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Inge (1986), 701</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stone (1975), 180</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Inge (1986), 703–5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hinds-ahab-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hinds-ahab_58-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hinds-ahab_58-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHinds,_Jane1997" class="citation journal cs1">Hinds, Jane (1997). 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Paramount Pictures.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Melville, 427. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cYKYYypj8UAC&q=moby+dick">online</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161129121112/https://books.google.com/books?id=cYKYYypj8UAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=moby+dick&client=safari#PPA427,M1">Archived</a> November 29, 2016, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlviajJlctQ&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFTxGgtC_DSPolFqD7KlcZ17">"Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb - Dorktown"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(video)</span>. <i>youtube.com</i>. 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(1986). "Melville Biography: A Life and the Lives." <i>A Companion to Melville Studies</i>. Ed. John Bryant. New York, Westport, London: Greenwood Press.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Delbanco" title="Andrew Delbanco">Delbanco, Andrew</a>. (2005). <i>Melville: His World and Work</i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780375403149" title="Special:BookSources/9780375403149">9780375403149</a></li> <li>Heflin, Wilson. (2004). <i>Herman Melville's Whaling Years</i>. Eds. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas Farel Heffernan. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.</li> <li>Howard, Leon. (1940). "Melville's Struggle with the Angel." <i>Modern Language Quarterly</i>, June 1940. 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The Banks, East Sussex: Helm Information.</li> <li>Mansfield, Luther S. and <a href="/wiki/Howard_P._Vincent" title="Howard P. Vincent">Howard P. Vincent</a>. (1952). "Introduction" and "Explanatory Notes". Herman Melville, <i>Moby-Dick; or, The Whale</i>. Eds. Luther S. Mansfield and Howard P. Vincent. New York: Hendricks House. <a href="/wiki/HathiTrust" title="HathiTrust">HathiTrust</a> online <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046801760&view=1up&format=plaintext&seq=1">free access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F.O._Matthiessen" class="mw-redirect" title="F.O. Matthiessen">Matthiessen, F.O</a>. (1941). <i>American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman</i>. Tenth Printing 1966, New York, London and Toronto: Oxford University Press.</li> <li>Milder, Robert. (1988). "Herman Melville." <i>Columbia Literary History of the United States</i>. Gen. Ed. Emory Elliott. 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"Lear and Moby Dick". <i>Twice a Year</i>. <b>1</b>: <span class="nowrap">165–</span>89.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Twice+a+Year&rft.atitle=Lear+and+Moby+Dick&rft.volume=1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E165-%3C%2Fspan%3E89&rft.date=1938&rft.aulast=Olson&rft.aufirst=Charles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Ahab" class="Z3988"></span> Reprinted in Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (eds.), <i>Critical Essays on Herman Melville's</i> Moby-Dick. New York & Toronto: G.K. Hall & Co., and Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1992.</li> <li>Olson, Charles (1947). <i>Call Me Ishmael</i>. Reprint: City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1958. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/callmeishmael1958olso">Internet Archive</a></li> <li>Pommer, Henry F. (1950). <i>Milton and Melville</i>. 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Sealts Jr.">Sealts Jr., Merton M.</a> (1997), "Whose Book is <i>Moby-Dick</i>?", in Bryant, John; Milder, Robert (eds.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3ROt_zMv1WsC&q=Sealts"><i>Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays</i></a>, Kent, Ohio, London: The Kent State University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780873385626" title="Special:BookSources/9780873385626"><bdi>9780873385626</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Whose+Book+is+Moby-Dick%3F&rft.btitle=Melville%27s+Evermoving+Dawn%3A+Centennial+Essays&rft.place=Kent%2C+Ohio%2C+London&rft.pub=The+Kent+State+University+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=9780873385626&rft.aulast=Sealts+Jr.&rft.aufirst=Merton+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3ROt_zMv1WsC%26q%3DSealts&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Ahab" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li>Stone, Edward. 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