Moby Dick (Foreign Literature Masterpiece Series)

The masterpiece of American romantic writer Melville is also one of the best novels in the history of world literature. It is known as the "encyclopedia of the whaling industry" because of its description of sea voyages and the complicated whaling life. "Cambridge Literary History" calls it one of the greatest maritime romance novels in the history of world literature. In terms of its literary value, it is also known as the American "Hamlet". It tells the story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", who is determined to hunt down the ferocious and intelligent white whale Moby Dick who bit off one of his legs. After sailing almost all over the world, he finally encounters Moby Dick after many twists and turns. After three days of tracking, the harpoon was finally used to hit the white whale, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. Everyone fell into the sea, and only one sailor, Ishmael, was saved. The white color given by the author to the white whale symbolizes innocence and terror, and the white whale symbolizes the mixture of good and evil. This is the basic condition of the human world.