Question

In "Moby Dic", as the ship is sinking, we see a crew member frantically nailing Ahab's flag to the mast. This detail exemplifies the larger theme of: Question 11 options: nature's essential evil. the supremacy of American culture. America's loss of innocence. the futility of human efforts to dominate nature.

Answer 1

This detail exemplifies the larger theme of the futility of human efforts to dominate nature.
The entire novel revolves around that theme - whether Ahab as a human is capable of dominating Moby Dic, which is a whale and thus a representative of nature. Nature seems to be winning constantly and humans are ultimately unable to conquer it because nature is unconquerable.