... shall dogs lick they blood, even thine," (I Kings 21:19), and that "the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezrell" (I Kings 21:23). This allusion is significant for foreshadowing the destruction of the Pequod. In Moby Dick the characters names are not so different than names in the Bible and neither is the outcome of those characters so different ... Fates, who has constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way-(Melville 4). The Fates are the three goddess who control life and human destiny, Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachisis de...

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