We're on a mission and pressed for time right now. Peace out. The second ship, The Delight, didn't have the right answers so the Pequod kept going.
Primitivism; African, American Indian and Tahitian; Dagoo, Tashtego, and Queeqeg. These men seem to be around for the good of the ship's motivation. They are up for everything and will do anything so long as it involves killing. Also used for their skills such as Whale dismemberment, harpooning, and being the uncivilized. Tribal markings, broken English and pigmentation are their disadvantages, but seem to be a guarantee of loyalty as is their way. Though seemingly intimidating and stoic, these savages, are sensitive to the needs and circumstances of others. Daggoo shows this in his selfless rescue of Tashtego when he falls into a whale, The Heidelberg Tun [Cistern and Buckets]. Queeqeg in his concern about a whale mother and her still umbilically attached baby who had been harpooned. In this also, is a hint of nature vs. Society. Even though Queeqeg knows that this killing of mother and child is wrong, seemingly no one else but Ismael feels anything towards it. To everyone else it's not morally wrong, it's economically correct. A whale is a whale is a whale and oil is to be extracted and exchanged for lots o' money. If there is already talk of what there is to do with this sixteen dollar gold ounce ( nine hundred and sixty cigars says Flask), think of what there is to buy with one- hundred and sixty dollars. No, I don't know what their payment would be but it has to be more than the ever- impressive sixteen dollars. .
Ahab, Captain of The Pequod, high on introspection. Ahab wants nothing more thatn to fulfill his won desires to obliterate Moby Dick. Manipulating others to indulge himself, so into his own thoughts is he that it has cost him his sanity. This Emersonian realization of one's goals, affirming self, is causing Ahab to crack.