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	Moby-Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahab is the tyrannical captain of the Pequod who is driven by a monomaniacal desire to kill Moby Dick, the whale to whom he lost his leg.
		Ahab's name may be inspired by the biblical King Ahab, who was tempted by his wealthy wife Jezebel to stray from worshipping God alone, just as Ahab was lured by the material world into a quest which ultimately deprived him of his humanity.
		Berserker Blue Death, a 1985 science fiction novel by Fred Saberhagen, is basically Captain Ahab in the 25th century, with the white whale replaced by the Blue Berserker ship, and with the facially scarred captain's peg leg made from a captured android leg, instead of a bone from a whale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moby-Dick (4203 words)

	Ahab - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ahab was one of the greatest kings of the northern kingdom.
		Ahab's prestige is seen in Assyrian inscriptions mentioning his alliance against Shalmaneser III (see Shalmaneser I), who won an indecisive victory (c.854 BC) at Karkar on the Orontes.
		After this campaign Ahab and Benhadad 2 of Damascus went to war over the country E of the Jordan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ahab.html (390 words)

	The character of captain ahab in melville's moby-dick - The World and I Magazine
		Ahab, in a small whaleboat, becomes entangled in his own harpoon line and, with Fedallah and his other men, is accidentally roped to the whale as it dives and is dragged down to a watery grave.
		Captain Ahab also associates this cosmic power with the white whale, but he cannot be sure whether the whale is the thing itself (that is, God made manifest) or a representative or agent of God.
		Ahab's titanic struggle against evil, his single-minded objective of eradicating from the face of the earth the agent or principle of wickedness that could so maim and destroy, is heroic and admirable.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1998/february/tuttleto.cfm (4239 words)

	books about: captain (balloonology connecticut brotherhood) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though family and friends have upheld the honorable side of Captain Ahab's character, he has also heard the rumors of his father's last voyage and how he was blamed for the death of many.
		Captain Nemo is very loyal to the Jules Verne character and it has added a new...
		She does a lovely job of capturing Ahab's obsession, his penchance for pushing away anyone who longed to have deep ties with him--all in all a great character study of pride and its destructiveness both to the person who is...
	www.very-clever.com /books/captain (1334 words)

	Moby-Dick
		Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.
		Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he told them he would take the whale head-and-head, -- that is, pull straight up to his forehead, -- a not uncommon thing; for when within a certain limit, such a course excludes the coming onset from the whale's sidelong vision.
		The rarely imagined character [Ahab] has been grievously spoiled, nay altogether ruined, by a vile overdaubing with a coat of book-learning and mysticism; there is no method in his madness; and we must needs pronounce the chief feature of the volume a perfect failure, and the work itself inartistic.
	www.melville.org /hmmoby.htm (4536 words)

	Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, by Lisa Norling. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I begin with Captain Ahab's wife because I think the way she is invoked in the novel suggests both the symbolic importance and the substantive absence of women from maritime culture then and from most maritime history now.
		At the same time, though, domesticity offered the real-life Ahab's wife, and Ahab too, a powerful and indeed the only available way of understanding themselves as wives and husbands and maintaining their relationships during separations that now lasted three, four, or five years, and were repeated well through midlife.
		This homogeneous group, whom I call the "career" or "professional" whalemen, formed a stable core of the workforce on which the whaling agents (the managers who were also usually the majority owners of their vessels) largely depended, as the industry expanded, for the preservation of the vessel and successful prosecution of the pursuit.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/norling_captain.html (4300 words)

	Captain Ahab
		Captain Ahab consists of one man, The Benevolent General Hershnov, aka Jonathan Snipes.
		Ahab first came into public (by public, I mean internet-nerd) view in late June of 1999, when his first song "Swine Lung" was posted on mp3.com.
		Ahab says that he does not present his music for people to enjoy, but rather so people will realize why Aphex Twin, Moby, Orbital, Banco De Gaia, Squarepusher, and Roni Size are so popular: They don't sound like Captain Ahab.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/polly/36/history.htm (368 words)

	Captain Ahab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
		Captain Ahab, a Los Angeles based pop/electronic band.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Captain_Ahab (86 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| AHAB'S WIFE by Sena J. Naslund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ahab's Wife is a novel on a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, authentic and evocative.
		Ahab's Wife is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the greatest American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph.
		When Una is looking for icebergs on Ahab's ship, she returns his trust "with silence on the subject of a white whale and all his massive innocence" (p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/ahabs_wife.asp (707 words)

	Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer - PowerBookSearch!
		By the time of her (irregular) marriage to Ahab, she has known passion, terror, pain, and joy beyond the ordinary and is her beloved captain's intellectual and emotional soul mate.
		A questioning woman, before she ever met the legendary Captain Ahab, she was a defiant daughter, a lover of literature, an accomplished seamstress, a seafaring adventurer (disguised as a boy aboard a whaling ship), survivor of a horrific shipwreck, and a spiritual seeker.
		"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0688177859.html (2860 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Captain Ahab’s Rebellion
		Before looking at the cause of the sea captain’s complaint and the nature of his rebellion, we do well to remark that Ahab is not Melville himself, who speaks more properly through the book’s narrator, Ishmael.
		In his hunt of the white whale Ahab endeavors to retaliate for the immense metaphysical injustice of the Adamic tragedy.
		So Ahab pursues the whale, for only thus can he be faithful to “the eternal, living principle or soul in him.” Against the cruel impersonality of the universe, he will assert his own personality.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=08-02-015-f (2311 words)

	Captain Ahab and Moby Dick: A Study in the Self and the Other
		The whale is set up as a force to be reckoned with, and Ahab is set up as a crazed man, who, despite extensive knowledge of the whale's actions, fills in the blanks, so to speak.
		Ahab projects his own feelings and instincts onto Moby-Dick, as it is too difficult for him to accept himself as he is.
		Ahab and Moby-Dick are a special case of the relationship, and they are one that deserve consideration.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/218/projects/lawrence/lawrence.htm (1384 words)

	Herman Melville - Free Online Library
		Ahab reveals to the crew that the purpose of the voyage is to hunt and kill the snow-white sperm whale, known as Moby-Dick: a creature that had cost Ahab his leg on a previous voyage.
		Ahab is drowned, tied by the harpoon line his archenemy.
		Captain Vere sees through Claggart's plot, but fears reaction among the crew if Billy is not punished.
	melville.thefreelibrary.com (1434 words)

	Free Essay Moby Dick - Comparison Of Captain Ahab and Billy Budd
		Captain Vere, the pivotal character who determines the fate of the title character in Melville's Billy Budd, appears at the onset to be a man conflicted.
		But Ahab, because of his inability to consider his crew's views about the hunt and because he can only think of the whale as pure evil, condemns them all to death.
		Ahab's ideas can not be changed by anyone except Moby Dick himself, but Billy's mind can't be changed for a different reason his innocence is too powerful a trait in him.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25266 (999 words)

	Chapter xxviii - AHAB
		The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously.
		So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out - which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered - then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
		So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
	www.princeton.edu /~batke/moby/moby_028.html (1127 words)

	Don's Dizzy Dragon, an original, clean humor site; updated weekly.
		Captain Ahab was sitting at his favorite table at Cutthroat Cove.
		Ahab was trying to get a crew together to go after that whale.
		The last that Fletcher Christian and Popeye the Sailorman saw of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick was of the captain holding on and the whale diving.
	www.dizzydragon.com /ahab.html (690 words)

	Fractured Foreign Policy / President Bush and Captain Ahab -- Psychological soul-mates
		Consider the cast of characters: Captain Ahab is played by President George W. Bush.
		Ahab is motivated by a monomaniacal hatred of Moby Dick.
		It is interesting that Ahab's confidante, the sinister Persian (read, Iranian) Fedallah, shares this view of the universe with Bush's advisers, including the "prince of darkness," Richard Perle.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/26/ED93766.DTL (557 words)

	Gay Patriot » Captain Ahab Democrats
		But, a second search (Ahab President Bush) yielded a number of conservatives who likened the media/Democratic obsession with the president to Ahab’s pursuit of the whale.
		It truly does seem that some Democrats, including the party’s current chairman, see our president and his political party as the “monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies.” Captain Ahab’s obsession with this whale brought the ruin of his ship, the Pequod and the death of all but one of her crew.
		The Media Research Center noted that “CBS was still pursuing this Captain Ahab or this Moby Dick of a story after all these years when the public already had plenty of basis to judge Bush.
	www.gaypatriot.net /2005/06/14/captain-ahab-democrats (922 words)

	CAPTAIN Term Papers - CAPTAIN Research Papers from JunglePage
		An analysis of reactions of Antigone and Captain Vere to affronts in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
		This paper proves how and why Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is a tragic hero.
		This essay explores the complex character of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's famous novel, Moby-Dick.
	www.junglepage.com /term_papers/captain.html (351 words)

	essays research papers - Captain Ahab
		Captain Ahab If you ever saw Captain Ahab in a dark alley, you’d probably turn and run the other way.
		His scarred body and wooden leg are just a couple of characteristics that show who he is. Ahab is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and their mission is to go on a trip and bring back as many whales as possible.
		Ahab only cared about his own feelings, for Starbuck, came to him many times and told him that the crew wanted to go home, to see their wives and families, and to get more supplies.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=57276 (573 words)

	Scoop: Scoop Satire: Captain Ahab Named On CHP List
		Party leader Graham Capillary said that Captain Ahab would be placed at number 5 on the party list, saying that his “professionalism, work ethic, and sense of moral fortitude based on Christian faith” would be a huge boost for the party as it led into the election.
		A press conference was held immediately after the Christian Coalition list release, where Captain Ahab alluded to the sense of pride and responsibility the high list position had given him, saying “I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
		Captain Ahab also addressed criticisms that his relatively advanced years, (if delivered to parliament, he will become it’s oldest ever member at 189 years of age), may discourage some voters.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0206/S00172.htm (1298 words)

	books about: ahab (psychological whalefishery illustrated) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ahab, the mad captain, sets out on a ship representative of the world, in a quest to ultimately...
		The crew has all the usual suspects with a captain who is totally unlike Ahab of the first go-round.
		The Pirate Captain (none of the pirates are named) is as likely to cut one's belly as he is to eat a bowl of cocoa puffes.
	www.very-clever.com /books/ahab (1117 words)

	The C.L.R. James Institute: Book Announcement: "Hunting Captain Ahab" by Clare Spark
		Spark considers Ahab as both abolitionist (e.g., Charles Sumner) and modern artist (Melville himself), with the proviso that Ahab and Ishmael (the narrator) are sometimes at odds, sometimes confusingly blended.
		Hunting Captain Ahab constitutes a major reassessment of Melville and his critical reception in America.
		Hunting Captain Ahab is a delicious concoction, an irresistible melange of Hannah Arendt, Kermit Vanderbilt, Kitty Kelley, Ronald Radosh-Joyce Milton, and A. Byatt.
	www.clrjamesinstitute.org /clare.html (1201 words)

	The Great White Whale Continues to Elude Bush - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But Ahab’s existence is rooted in his monomania; he cannot comprehend the true danger.
		Ahab is possessed by a “pervading, mad recklessness.” His pursuit is blind, regardless of the warnings from other whaling vessels.
		Everyone warns Ahab that he is making a terrible mistake in pursuing Moby Dick, yet he decides to go it alone, without any assistance if need be.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /opinion/2003/4743.html (762 words)

	Ahab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bidkar - Bidkar, in the Bible, captain under Ahab and Jehu.
		Hunting captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival.
		"Culpability and transgression in the monomania of Ahab".
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0802792 (283 words)

	Captain Ahab - DBA033
		At a recent festival on a S. CA college campus, Captain Ahab was unplugged, not by the promoter, but by a very upset young lady.
		Captain Ahab left the stage only to be confronted by an older lady, at the event with her children.
		Of course, Ahab is also about being a reflection of all genres of electronic music, for better or worse ~ and not just the naughty ones.
	www.deathbombarc.com /releases/dba033.htm (253 words)

	World and I: The character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.' (Herman Melville)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.' (Herman Melville)
		By emphasizing Ahab's desire for vengance, Melville likens him to the divine.
		Melville's Moby-Dick may well be the greatest novel ever written by an American; and, setting aside the great white whale itself, Captain Ahab, skipper of the doomed ship, the Pequod, may be the most...
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:21185169/The+character+of+Captain+Ahab+in+... (187 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: CAPTAIN AHAB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Combining incredibly sophisticated arrangements and compositions with a fl and lewd sense of humor, Captain Ahab's music is too fucked up to be confused for real rave music.
		Captain Ahab's early efforts were pure noise, and things mutated from there.
		*CAPTAIN AHAB's** song "Snakes on the Brain" was recently chosen to be in the Samuel L. Jackson film Snakes on a Plane.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/captain.ahab.html (695 words)

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