Dick Durbin

In Shakespeare's Othello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess the main characters are all consumed by an unhealthy obsession that leads to tragic results for those around them. Obsessions are all consuming, and takes all of one's focus. An example of this is Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. His flaw is that he has became consumed with the idea of the whale and let it guide his every action. He lived his life for the sole purpose of this animal. This is an allegory to…

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Through Melville’s symbolism, God is the great leviathan of Moby Dick, a creature that has such a broad expanse of a forehead, he has no face nor “tender prominence of any sort whatsoever” (368). Melville although seemingly describing the features of the whale is in fact, darkly mocking and questioning the intelligence and feelings of God and concealing it all underneath his symbolism and allegory’s. He questions if God has any feelings or compassion or is only a powerful dumb brute with a…

Moby dick is very symbolic; he is the biggest whale Ahab has even seen, and also the whale that took his left leg. For that Ahab sees the whale as the embodiment of evil. When at sea, Ahab thinks of Moby and walks on deck putting dents on the ship with his peg leg; this is symbolic for Ahab's anxiety to hunt down and kill the whale that took his leg. It isn’t even for his blubber; Ahab does it to prove to himself that he can do anything he wants as captain. Moby dicks leg is made from whale bone…

Moby Dick Name of the Writer Name of the Institute Date of Submission The Quarter-Deck and The chase-Third Day Introduction: Moby-Dick is full of symbolism and describes the character of Captain Ahab in two chapters The Quarter Deck and The Chase-Third Day. Moby Dick is a Great novel written by Herman Melville in 1851. It is a story of a quest among a White Whale named as Moby Dick who destroyed the Captain Ahab’s ship in a voyage and also split his leg from the Knee. MobyDick is…

Forest Mahoney Tuesday, October 21st 2014 ENG 4U1 Mr. Webb A Cautionary Tale When Philip K. Dick wrote Second Variety, his home country, the United States, was in the middle of a cold war with the Soviet Union. The mantra ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ almost perfectly describes the relationship of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. during the Second World War. Both nations had faced a common enemy in Nazi Germany and were allied for that reason, and that reason only. This is important to note…

Justin Ramos Mr. Banks Science Fiction Period 1 16 December, 2017 In the novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, there are many questions that the author makes readers question. For example, what makes a living being human?, how are androids and humans different?, and is his view of human nature essentially positive, negative, or both? These questions make the reader more engaged in the novel and really gives Philip’s thoughts on these questions as well. The first…

the lapse of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, he blurs the lines between androids and humans by enunciating humanities lack of its defining characteristics- love and compassion. Throughout the progression of the novel Philip K. Dick asserts that as technology ameliorates, humanity degresses to become as apathetic as the androids themselves. Having no trouble retiring (or killing) an android at the beginning of the novel, Rick Deckard's orientation transformed to…

“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathetic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated” (Dick 31). The line between what is human and what is not would seem as if the difference can easily be seen, look at animals, clearly, they are not humans. However, what if there was a being that was similar in looks, intelligence, and could act with…

First and foremost is their instinctive animalistic trait for survival. These humans are the ones that made it through World War Terminus and continue to live on a residually radioactive planet, so their survival instincts have taken over and arguable lessen their other aspects of gentile humanity. The society values of these times are also radically different from pre-war times. In so small a population, social status has become even more important to attain. And the way to attain said statues…