Well, moraine should be like that, the harsh philosophy of the ocean, 20,000 leagues, Arthur Gordon Pym, the Ghost ship. All good stories, the main thing is to learn to work with information.
Assessment 4 out of 5 stars from Sir Shuriy 08/24/2018 08:45
An ambiguous, not an easy book.
Assessment 3 out of 5 stars from Anya 05/27/2017 01:57
You have not read this book about that. This is not a novel.
“Yes, Jed, one hundred and fifty years after Melville wrote Moby Dick, you seem to be the first to know what it’s about.” She lifted her glasses. “Congratulations.
“Great,” I replied. “I have to get something for this. A beautiful letter, for example.
- It seems to me that a book titled "Spiritually Wrong Enlightenment", which begins with the words "Call me Ahab", will not attract much attention in the literary world.
- Eh, my letter cried. "
These are the words from Jed McKenna's book Spiritually Wrong Enlightenment. Well you get the idea
Alexey 04/01/2017 01:40
I support dbushoff. +1
Assessment 3 out of 5 stars from Ru5 01.06.2016 22:24
I barely mastered it.
There is a lot of corruption and a lot of violence against whales. But the point is in the book, I admit it.
My opinion and assessment fully reflects the review written below, I will not repeat myself.
Assessment 3 out of 5 stars from Ksana_Spring 20.03.2016 13:42
The book remained controversial for me. On the one hand, I really liked the storyline itself. The scale of what is happening is so captivating and absorbing that one simply unimaginably wants to plunge into its gloomy atmosphere of madness and comprehend the whole essence of what is happening greedily reading page after page, if not for one "but"! The entire book is replete with endless references, reveling in extensive encyclopedic knowledge, pathos of appeals and conclusions that only cut the plot into bits dissolving it in the author's boundless knowledge, which in fact do not carry any semantic load and their value for the book is very doubtful, they are more likely to be analyzed books, scientific work, whatever, but not in any way supplement the plot, which sometimes itself in a detailed description, to the smallest details of something insignificant, is so tiring and does not advance that it simply infuriates, and sometimes so angry that you want to run a book about a wall, although on the contrary somewhere, namely at the end, the rapid development and no less rapid denouement simply leaves you in confusion. And not only the denouement leaves questions. Why is the team not worked out so well, at least Queequeg? What happened to him after joining the Pequod? it feels like the ship depersonalized him, and Ishmael and the crew. What have they been doing all this time? Probably read about Melville's "whale fish", poisonous? I know! try to read a book in which a separate dry pseudoscientific book unfolds to the detriment of an excellent plot! You could safely throw out all unnecessary and it would already be a story on 150-200 pages capaciously describing what is happening. The only reason why I finished reading the book is undoubtedly one of the outstanding and exciting stories that unfortunately dissolves in a huge amount of unnecessary information presented by the author in an outrageous pathos form of irresistible complacency. Based on this my assessment, she is motivated.
Assessment 3 out of 5 stars from dbushoff 09.11.2015 10:25
The book was published in 1851. The novel is the most significant in the work of the American writer Herman Melville. It combines different genres: epic novel, philosophical, fantasy, adventure ... The unnoticed and criticized work did not like his contemporaries.
It is possible that then the public could not accept the original work with many lyrical digressions, saturation with biblical morality, symbolic images... Yes, and animals were treated with a consumer point of view.
Nowadays, the book is highly appreciated and is a classic of world literature. Critics and readers alike agree that Moby Dick addresses important issues of animal welfare... Many feature films have been shot based on the book.
The story is told on behalf of Ishmael, who was engaged in whaling with other sailors on the Pequod whaler. Their captain Ahab was left, through the fault of a white whale, called Moby Dick, without a leg and wants to take revenge on the giant. The whale is known as the killer of whalers. Many of them wanted to kill Moby Dick, but they themselves lost their lives.
Ishmael is on a whaling ship for the first time. He observes with interest the intricacies of this trade and the life of whalers. Ahab is eager to meet the whale and promises a golden doubloon to the first person to see it. On board the ship, meanwhile, strange events began to occur, which many sailors interpreted as promising trouble.
While hunting for whales, Pip fell out of the cabin boy's boat. After spending a night in a barrel at sea, he lost his mind ... The sick harpooner Quiket orders a coffin for himself, but he recovers and the coffin is tarred, thus turning into a life buoy. He was hung at the stern, surprising with its characteristic form, oncoming commands.
Finally, the ship overtakes Moby Dick. The team tries to harpoon him, but they fail. ... The first time he broke the whaleboats, the second time Ahab harpooned him, but got entangled in the line and drowned. In the end, he destroyed the entire team, leaving only Ishmael alive.
The sailor miraculously escaped thanks to the tarred coffin, in which he was saved by the passing ship "Rachel". This, of course, is a short retelling, which could not convey the beauty of the work. Herman Melville's Moby Dick should be read in full.
Criticism
- The novel has no equal in terms of completeness and scrupulous description of whaling ... This is due to the fact that Herman Melville himself was engaged in this business and knew about whale fishing firsthand.
- Also, the book perfectly describes the anatomy of a whale, reveals the features of the behavior of these animals and gives their classification.
- Melville pushed the boundaries of Moby Dick's perception as an ordinary animal. He embodied in his image the forces that torment the soul and heart of a person.
- From the work you can learn a lot not only about whales, but also about the life of sailors. The gaze appears in details of their life, the manifestation of the sea element in different guises, shipwreck.
- Melville's innovation manifested itself in the portrayal of the sea as an equal participant in the events, determining the behavior and way of thinking for the characters.
- The novel contains a lot of philosophical reasoning and allegories. ... The image of the White Whale Moby Dick is multifaceted. For each crew member, as well as for the readers, he is seen differently. For some, he is the embodiment of Evil, for others, justice.
A long novel with numerous lyrical digressions, imbued with biblical imagery and multi-layered symbolism, was not understood and accepted by contemporaries. The rediscovery of Moby Dick took place in the 1920s.
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✪ HERMAN MELVILLE. "Moby Dick". Biblical plot
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Plot
The story is told on behalf of the American sailor Ishmael, who went on a voyage on the whaling ship "Pequod", whose captain, Ahab (a reference to the biblical Ahab), is obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200brevenge on the giant white whale killer of whalers, known as Moby Dick (in the previous voyage due to the fault of the whale Ahab lost his leg and the captain has been using a prosthesis ever since.)
Ahab orders him to constantly watch the sea and promises a golden doubloon to whoever sees Moby Dick first. Ominous events begin to take place on the ship. Falling out of the boat while hunting for whales and spending the night on a barrel in the open sea, the ship's cabin boy, Pip, goes mad.
The Pequod eventually catches up with Moby Dick. The chase lasts three days, during which time the ship's crew tries to harbor Moby Dick three times, but he breaks the whaleboats every day. On the second day, the Persian harpooner Fedalla, who predicted to Ahab that he would leave before him, perishes. On the third day, as the ship drifts nearby, Ahab hits Moby Dick with a harpoon, gets entangled in the line and drowns. Moby Dick completely destroys the boats and their crew, except for Ishmael. From the impact of Moby Dick, the ship itself sinks, along with everyone who remained on it.
Ishmael is saved by an empty coffin (prepared in advance by one of the whalers, unusable, and then converted into a life buoy), like a cork that floats up next to him - by grabbing it, he remains alive. The next day he is picked up by a passing ship "Rachel".
The novel contains many deviations from the storyline. Parallel to the development of the plot, the author gives a lot of information, one way or another related to whales and whaling, which makes the novel a kind of "whale encyclopedia." On the other hand, Melville punctuates such chapters with discourses that have a second, symbolic or allegorical, meaning under practical meaning. In addition, he often pokes fun at the reader, disguised as instructive stories, telling semi-fantastic stories [ what?] .
Historical background
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The plot of the novel is largely based on a real case that happened with the American whaling ship Essex. The vessel with a displacement of 238 tons left for fishing from a port in Massachusetts in 1819. For nearly a year and a half, the crew beat the whales in the South Pacific until one large (estimated to be about 26 meters long with a normal size of about 20 meters) put an end to it. On November 20, 1820, a whaling ship was rammed several times by a giant whale in the Pacific Ocean.
20 sailors in three tiny boats reached the uninhabited island of Henderson, now part of the British Pitcairn Islands. The island had a large colony of seabirds, which became the only source of food for sailors. The further routes of the sailors were divided: three remained on the island, and most of them decided to go in search of the mainland. They refused to land on the nearest known islands - they were afraid of the local tribes of cannibals, they decided to swim to South America. Hunger, thirst, and cannibalism killed almost everyone. On February 18, 1821, 90 days after the sinking of the Essex, a whaleboat was picked up by the British whaling ship Indiana, in which the Essex's first mate Chase and two other sailors were saved. Five days later, the whaling ship "Dauphin" rescued Captain Pollard and another sailor who were in the second whaleboat. The third whaleboat disappeared into the ocean. The three sailors remaining on Henderson Island were rescued on April 5, 1821. In total, 8 of the 20 Essex crew members survived. Chase's first mate wrote a book about the incident.
The novel is also based on Melville's own experience in whaling - in 1840 he sailed as a cabin boy on the whaling ship Akushnet, on which he spent more than a year and a half. Some of his then acquaintances ended up on the pages of the novel as characters, for example, Melvin Bradford, one of the co-owners of "Akushnet", appeared in the novel under the name of Bildad, co-owner of "Pequod".
Influence
Returning from oblivion in the second third of the 20th century, "Moby Dick" has become one of the most textbook works of American literature.
G. Melville's descendant, working in the genres of electronic music, pop, rock and punk, took a pseudonym in honor of the white whale - Moby.
The world's largest cafe chain Starbucks borrowed its name and logo motif from the novel. When choosing a name for the network, the name "Pequod" was first considered, but in the end it was rejected, and the name of Ahab's first assistant, Starback, was chosen.
Screen adaptations
The novel was filmed several times in different countries, starting in 1926. The most famous production based on the book is John Houston's 1956 film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab. Ray Bradbury co-wrote this film; later Bradbury wrote the story "Banshee" and the novel "Green Shadows, White Whale", dedicated to the work on the script. At the end of 2010, the shooting of a new film based on the book was about to begin
"Moby Dick"- one of the most famous works of American literature. Contemporaries did not appreciate the novel by Herman Melville, but, years later, critics returned the multi-page work from oblivion. The story of the battle of sailors with a giant white whale was repeatedly filmed. Interestingly, the plot was based on a real case, and the ordeals that the whalers had drunk in life were much worse than those described in the novel ...
As conceived by Hermine Melville, the novel "Moby Dick" was about a whaling ship that went fishing. His captain Ahab lost his leg while hunting a giant white whale and was obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200brevenge on the whale at all costs. At the same time, the albino whale instilled fear in all whalers: due to its impressive size, no one could defeat the ocean giant.
The fateful meeting between the Pequod and Moby Dick occurs. In an unequal battle, the entire crew perishes, only the sailor Izmail remains alive, for whom this campaign was the first experience of participation in whaling.
The real story of the Essex crew was far more tragic. Failures haunted the ship from the very departure: at first the ship got into a strong storm, then was forced to drift in a distant port, waiting out the bad weather. The decision to go to the "Sea Land", a special area in the South Pacific, where there were many whales, the captain made with apprehension: the journey must have been too long.
As it turned out, the fears were not in vain. Having reached the right place and went out to hunt, the crew saw the very Moby Dick. Keith rammed the ship several times until it sank like a splinter. The sailors were forced to urgently change to whaleboats (special lifeboats). A total of 20 sailors were saved, they managed to carry away almost 300 kg of biscuits, several turtles and 750 liters of water with them.
The way to the nearest uninhabited island took the sailors a month. During this time they were hungry and thirsty. Having sailed to the wreck, we were happy to find fresh water, birds and crabs. The temporary shelter supplied them with food for a week, but after the supplies were depleted, 17 people decided to swim further. Three remained on the island.
What happened next defies morality and the laws of common sense. During the next storm the boats lost each other, but over time the same thing began to happen on each of them. People began to die of hunger, the first two were buried by the sea, and the rest ... it was decided to eat. It was the only way to prolong the life of those who still held on. One of the sailors was killed and eaten by lot, since it was unbearable to wait for a natural death.
Nothing is known about the fate of one of the boats (it is generally believed that everyone died on it), the other two were seen at different times by passing ships. The surviving sailors were rescued, they also told about their comrades who remained on the island. The islanders were rescued on April 5 (the fatal meeting with the whale took place on November 20), all of them were able to survive on the island. In total, 8 people from the whole crew survived. Amazingly, the surviving captain of the ship did not end his naval career there. He went to sea several more times, but each time his ships were wrecked. After a while, the owners of the ships refused to cooperate with him, and he ended his life working as a night watchman.
To understand how great the monster was that the brave sailors had to face, just look at!
