... obsessed with the white whale and tells his crew that " I "ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up" (Melville (1),156 ). A critic comments that "Captain Ahab's unrelenting pursuit of the great whale is an obsession" that forces him " to act in ways that are self-destructive" ( Gunn, 2). Ahab's obsession with the ... whale stems in part from the injury that it caused him but also from the fact ... of good and evil is broached more often than any other aspect of religion, through the clever use of...

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