... as a symbol. It may be useful to compare Bartleby the symbol to another highly ambiguous creation of Melville's imagination "Moby Dick. Of all of Melville's characters, only the white whale, Moby Dick, presents the same interpretive difficulties as Bartleby and has been construed in as many different ways. In the novel Moby Dick, each of Melville's characters interprets the white ... that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there is naught beyond. But 'tis enough...That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be that white whale agent, or be that white whale principal, I wi...

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... Pequod, and his crewmembers "Starbuck, Starbuck, Flask, Ishmael and others, set sail on the seas to hunt for whales." However, the whaling voyage becomes a vengeful conquest to hunt down a whale named Moby Dick. Moreover, the novel takes place in the mid-nineteenth century set primarily on a whaling vessel traveling on the seas. On the journey, the Captain Ahab and his ... ...

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