... lovings and longings, so keep I pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time?"(Melville(1),493) The answer, is fate and Ahab realizing this tells Starbuck," By heaven man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass and Fate is the handspike ... and exploring one quality of the whale- its whiteness- Melville generates whole worlds of suggestions and new meanings for Christianity and beyond" ( Walcutt, 5) . Ahab and the whalers in their quest to vanquish the ultimate evil, " become the seekers of an ultimate truth, which retreats farther and farther int...

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