Moby dick was a cool book and movie with a lot of symbols for instants at the beginning of the movie when the preacher is talking about Joanna and the wale. It compares Joanna to Ishmael more than Joanna and Captain Ahab I think because if you think about it the wale spared Joanna life and Ishmael is the only one who survived. How the preacher is talking about a storm and how Joanna was thrown over and how the great wale sunk his ivery teeth around him and how Joanna was good so god spared him just like god spared Ishmael. When they first ship of and Ishmael burns his hand on the rope and then they pour alcohol on them and make him drink some of the alcohol it was almost as if they were anisheating Ishmael. When Ahab makes his speech about Moby dick and the ounce of Spanish gold the only one that does not buy in to it is Starbucks. There are so many symbols it is hard to pick for instants one of them is like when captain Ahab cuts his hand and pours the blood in to a glass and takes a drink and passed it down and every one took a drink except Starbucks and Ishmael and the funny thing is there the only to that were not under Ahab's cures because he controlled everybody else. Then Ahab tells Starbucks that he is a prophet so he
does not have to answer to any one and went astray just like joanna did he went away from the lord and so he was punished and so will captain Ahab. When that guy falls from the crows nest and dies I saw it as a warning that death will come to them all soon. Then when pip gets lost and they find and get him back on the ship and he wigs out and is never the same for the rest of the trip. The funny thing is nothing bad starts to happen until they see the white wale and start try to kill it. As Queequeg said he is bad magic. Captain Ahab's obsession with the wale is like one of those to a schoolboy for a piece of candy and he will do anything to get the whale and at any cost to get the great white whale. Through this entire movie I get the feeling that Ahab is tested and tested a time and time again. Then Ahab compares him self with god him self. By this time Queequeg is not answering to no one and is preparing to die because of Captain Ahab's madness. Then a violent storm appears and tries to make them turn around but Ahab wont let them. I saw it as a sign that god was trying to spare there lives and make them turn around. Then Starbuck grabs the helm and turns it but Ahab stops him so he can't. His obsession with the whale makes him go through the storm and it seams like it is his last test. Then Saint Elmoe's fire appears and the captain uses it to have everybody think of him as god. The only ones to see through the natural phenomenon are Ishmael and Starbuck. Then the captain breaks the navigation device, which I saw it as they're only way home. That captain Ahab just sent a message that no one will make it home and that everybody will die that's how I saw it. I felt bad for Starbuck for he disagreed with the captain so many times but could nothing about it because he had to follow out his orders because that
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