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Symbolism in Moby Dick

Symbolism in the book Moby Dick is a patchwork of the “Evil Captain” theory and the “Nothingness” theory. In this theory chance and circumstance cause an unlucky (as opposed to ill fated) captain to become the unwitting vehicle for evil. It is not his fault, he is driven to it by simple bad luck, and so evil is created out of nothingness, and then disappears from whence it came. The whale represents nothing, Starbuck represents nothing, Pip only serves to represent the madness that would have overtaken Ahab had he not invented an evil whale to blame his leg on, clam chowder represents clam chowder, and most importantly Ishmael represents God, or the truth. One thing that surprised me about this book was how contradictory the wording

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