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AHAB

1. Ahab is an enigma whose larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted. What can
we say we know about him? That he is a grey-headed, ungodly old man. He has
eyes like powder pans. His crew says he never sleeps, only tosses in bed and
Ahabs pillow is hot to the touch, as though a baked brick had been on it. He has
a scar, too, a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish, running from head to toe. In
the Pacific, a year before the events that Ishmael describes in the novel, Ahab found
himself surrounded by the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn
comrades, all churning in the white curds of the whales direful wrath. (page
237)
2. Ahab doesnt look like he is actually been sick, but he does look wasted. (page 239)
3. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable
wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance. (Chpter 28,
page 239)
4. And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion
in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
(Chpter 28, page 239)
5. According to the critic M. H. Abrams, such a tragic hero moves us to pity because,
since he is not an evil man, his misfortune is greater than he deserves; but he moves
us also to fear, because we recognize similar possibilities of error in our own lesser
and fallible selves.

Monomania - exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.


QUEEQUEG

1. There is more to Queequeg than just his savage appearance. Soon, Ishmael sees ''the
traces of a simple honest heart.'' Even in his eyes, which are ''fiery black and bold, there
seemed tokens of a spirit that would date a thousand devils.'' (Chapter 10, page 108).
2. "You cannot hide the soul". (Chapter 10, page 108)
3. He "treated me with so much civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great
rudeness." (Chapter 4, page 69)
4. How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures
between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to
each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly
morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequega cosy, loving
pair. (Chapter 11, page 115)

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