... jobs they occupied at the Salem Custom House. Hawthorne and Melville claim the credit for remarkable works such as the novels The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick. As any other literature these two can be linked in many ways such as haste between characters, events such as a resurrection, and remarkable ... recoveries for a characters personality. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth shared an important similarity with Ahab and the whale, Moby Dick. Dimmesdale was a young, handsome reverend that was the secret lover of Hester Prynne. Chillingworth was Hester's husband from the...

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... , which in the story is represented by the Pequod. There are many instances throughout the book in which the whale takes on the role of living sin. Melville writes of Moby Dick's viscous attacks, "But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults "not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken ankles, or devouring amputations "but fatal to the ... last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick - (Melville, 1851, p. 172) Furthermore, Hawthorne describes Moby Dick as, "so incredibly ferocious as continual...

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... .66 The next story of this era is a bit different for it is not outright supernatural, but the whole mood of the work gives off an eerie feeling. It is Moby Dick by Herman Melville. H.P. Lovecraft, a horror writer, once wrote that the test if a story is truly unearthly and strange is "simply whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound ... sense of dread, of contact with unknown spheres and powers" beyond the mortal realm.67 If this true, then Moby Dick passes the test. Melville speaks of "forbidden seas,"68 prophetic events, and a white whale of immense size and strange powe...

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