Question

Which best explains how Melville uses his description of Ahab in Chapter 28 of Moby-to comment on the nature of man?

Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how guilt can take over a man’s life.
Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how obsession can take over a man’s life.
Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how inaction can ruin a man’s life.
Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how isolation can ruin a man’s life.

Answer 1

Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how obsession can take over a man’s life.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is:

Through Ahab, Melville symbolizes how obsession can take over a man’s life.

Moby D*ck is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Is basically about Captain Ahab's obsession of haunting the white whale, as revenge of loosing his leg in a previous voyage. It explains basically how his life became completely dependent of hunting this whale.