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Which of the novel’s themes is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby D*ck? man’s ability to outsmart fate man’s harmony with nature man’s control over nature man’s inability to alter fate

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Novel's theme that is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby D*ck is man's inability to alter fate

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The question is not complete since it does not provide the excerpt of reference, here is the excerpt:

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-D*ck.

It was one of those less lowering, but still, grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

The description this excerpt of "Moby D*ck" gives of Captain Ahab shows his vision of things that are just meant to be in life and how little can people do against them but just see them live them and embrace them as inevitable events, such as the wild decisions of the see over the man and their ships.

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Melville's description of Ahab's scar in this excerpt best develops
the ruling of man's present by his past wounds because thr mankind is best symbolized by Ahab's plight is
obsession with the past. So the answer to your question is man's inability to alter fate.
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