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	Ishmael (Moby-Dick) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ishmael is the narrator (and arguably the protagonist) of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U.S. author Herman Melville.
		In Moby-Dick Ishmael does not comment on the significance of his own name, but he does refer to himself by that name several times later in the book.
		Ishmael introduces himself in the opening sentence of the novel with the well-known line "Call me Ishmael." The name Ishmael is Biblical in origin: In Genesis, Ishmael was the son of Abraham by the servant Hagar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishmael_(Moby-Dick) (486 words)

	ipedia.com: Ishmael Article
		Ishmael is supposedly buried near the Kaaba on the grounds of the Masjid al Haram.
		Ishmael in Judaism and Christianity In the Book of Genesis and later texts, Ishmael or Yishma'el is Abraham 's eldest son, born by his concubine Hagar.
		Ishmael was Lehi's friend and travel companion in the Book of Mormon.
	www.ipedia.com /ishmael.html (555 words)

	SparkNotes: Moby-Dick: Chapters 41–47
		Ishmael explains that Ahab lost his leg when he tried to attack Moby Dick with a knife after the whale destroyed his boats.
		Ishmael acknowledges that the reader may find the story thus far presented to be incredible and cites several items from his own experience and from written authorities to bolster the probability of his narrative.
		Ishmael’s protestation against allegorical interpretation is obviously ironic, since the reader knows that Ishmael’s story is fiction and has witnessed Ishmael’s inordinate tendency to introduce an allegorical or metaphorical aspect into almost everything that his narrative touches.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mobydick/section6.rhtml (1230 words)

	SparkNotes: Moby-Dick: Plot Overview
		He announces his desire to pursue and kill Moby Dick, the legendary great white whale who took his leg, because he sees this whale as the embodiment of evil.
		Ahab hopes that their skills and Fedallah’s prophetic abilities will help him in his hunt for Moby Dick.
		Ishmael, who was thrown from a boat at the beginning of the chase, was far enough away to escape the whirlpool, and he alone survives.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mobydick/summary.html (1056 words)

	Ishmael's New Testament: Salvation in Moby Dick
		Ishmael begins his story with a chapter called "Loomings." This may suggest his later description of the mat-maker at a loom in chapter 47 where the warp is necessity and the woof is free will with occasional "blows" of chance (185).
		Ishmael on the coffin is a kind of reconciliation between life and death, or at least an acceptance of death's reality.
		Ishmael's going under the water and re-emerging is also "a like figure" of baptism, with the coffin his "ark." The baptism formula of Romans 6:3,4, which is often quoted during baptismal rites emphasizes that the going under the water and re-emerging typifies Christ's burial and resurrection:
	pages.cthome.net /jbair/mobydick.htm (6491 words)

	Moby Dick Summary
		He alone was rescued to tell the tale of Moby Dick, Ahab, and the Pequod, which, "like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her...
		Melville wrestles in all his works with man's place in the cosmos, endeavoring to expose the unseen forces of the universe and the effects of these forces on man. In Moby Dick, he recognizes the power of both God and the Devil, and strains to comprehend their invisible source.
		Ishmael was struck by the man's austere expression, but even more by his spectacular artificial leginstead of a wooden leg, Ahab wore an attachment carved from the jawbone of a whale.
	www.awerty.com /moby2.html (1635 words)

	Reading Questions On Moby Dick
		Ishmael concludes his "reading" of the hieroglyphs of the whale's skin with an admonition to live as the whale does: "Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it" (247, ch.
		Ishmael describes the "universal cannibalism of the sea" (225, ch.
		Contrast Ishmael's pleasure in "A Squeeze of the Hand" with his dread of the same action (albeit "supernatural") in chapter 4.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/mddq.htm (2207 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides Moby-Dick Herman Melville
		When Ishmael meditates on the connotations of whiteness in "The Whiteness of the Whale," he is not merely probing the depths of a particular subject; he is also engaging in a philosophical exercise.
		Ishmael asserts that Ahab "piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down" (p.
		Perhaps Ishmael survives because, although he is just as attuned as Ahab to the elusiveness of truth, his inability to grasp it has not turned into self-consuming madness.
	www.idiotsguides.com /static/rguides/us/moby_dick.html (1766 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Moby Dick
		The scholastic and the epic mythological tones of Moby Dick collide during this chapter, in which Ishmael attempts to analyze the Biblical tale of Jonah and the Whale from a scientific perspective, justifying this Biblical tale by attempting to fit it into a plausible mode of intellectual study.
		This chapter is certainly the culmination of any homoeroticism found in Moby Dick, in which the crew of the Pequod feels its greatest sense of community when they squeeze sperm from the whale and Ishmael displays his most acute sense of satisfaction.
		The effect of this is jarring and somewhat tonally inconsistent, in contrast to the normally smooth flow of tones throughout the chapters of Moby Dick.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/moby/section7.html (3612 words)

	Senior Thesis: Tony
		Ishmael presents the meaning formulated by others, but (and because) he is not the person who holds those thoughts or beliefs and because the meaning others invest (in the whale) is not similar to his, he cannot clearly present them to readers.
		Ishmael’s words may very well be merely an affirmation that the whale into which he ventured was dead; but to look no further into Ishmael’s statement would be to ignore his warning for readers to be "heedful" of the "subtlest thinking [that] may be overheard afar" (374-375).
		Ishmael not only reaffirms this proof at the end of the chapter, but also reemphasizes the point that he was a Christian (a believer in that artificial light), but believes no more: "Give not thyself up, then, to the fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me" (355).
	www.viterbo.edu /personalpages/faculty/RRuppel/symposium/Tony.html (7888 words)

	Moby Dick Essay
		The alternative to rejecting the grand epic which is Moby Dick is to accept and enjoy the quirks which Ishmael manifests, and which embody the spirit of the novel.
		Some have called Melville's novel Moby Dick one of the "greatest sea romances in the whole literature of the world" (Van Doren 626), while others have disagreed, saying that much of the text is "sad stuff, dull and dreary, or ridiculous" (Anonymous 619).
		Ishmael tells us that "these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang" (Melville 405).
	www.cs.princeton.edu /~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Excerpts/Moby-Dick-Essay.shtml (1330 words)

	AmEx II Moby Dick Little
		Moby Dick took Ahab's leg in an earlier expedition and Ahab wants revenge; he wants to kill whatever is behind the mask that the whale wears, figuratively speaking.
		Maybe God put Moby Dick on the Earth to kill Ahab, or that was intended when Ahab lost his leg to the whale.
		Moby Dick is an evil part of an evil universe.
	www.neo.rr.com /12stark/12smith/Netpages/Moby/little.html (1009 words)

	Enjoying "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
		Moby Dick was written in an era in which books commonly exhorted people to conventional morality.
		But true to the central theme of Moby Dick, Melville never tells us which perspective we should decide is "the correct one".
		Ishmael's relationship with Queequeg is the story of a white American coming to understand and love a man from a different culture, to be open to his religion and customs, and to find a common human experience underneath the differences.
	www.pathguy.com /mobydick.htm (1767 words)

	Amazon.com: Moby Dick: Books: Herman Melville
		Moby Dick is not a perfect book in the sense than a Henry James novel might be perfect.
		MOBY DICK is regarded as America's greatest novel.(GRAPES of WRATH is plausible 20th Century contender).
		The end of "Moby Dick" informs the rest of the book, and in doing so makes rereading it inevitable.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899664784?v=glance (2937 words)

	Moby Dick as Tragedy
		To the extent that the book glorifies Ahab in these two poses and passes no further judgment on him, Melville was right in telling Hawthorne that in Moby Dick he had written "a wicked book." To this extent also, it is no tragedy.
		Ishmael has been caused the chorus to Ahab as tragic hero, but this is hardly adequate to describe his total participation in the tragic action.
		Ishmael, having learned the "wisdom that is woe," now learns the "woe that is madness"; and he learns it this time on his own pulses.
	lonestar.texas.net /~mseifert/moby.html (3277 words)

	CliffsNotes::Moby-Dick:Book Summary and Study Guide
		From Ahab and the harpooners (Chapter 36), and now from Ishmael, we learn that Moby Dick is an exceptionally large sperm whale with a snow-white head, a wrinkled brow, a crooked jaw, an especially bushy spout, and three holes in the right fluke of his tail.
		One of Moby Dick’s favorite tricks is to seem to be fleeing but suddenly turn on his pursuers and destroy their open boats.
		Students might note the rich ambiguity of Ishmael’s inquiry into the significance of the whale& “visible absence of color.” In that whiteness, Ishmael sees innocence and evil, glory and damnation in a nine-page chapter that is one of the most rewarding in the novel.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-79,pageNum-57.html (430 words)

	Moby Dick Study Guide
		Moby Dick is a story told on two levels: a great sea adventure and a story about man’s relationship to the universe.
		He published Moby Dick in 1851, at a time when the American whaling fleet numbered over 700 ships and exemplified the country’s confidence to expand its influence throughout the world.
		Moby Dick cracks each of the harpoon boats like matchstick toys.
	www.studyguide.org /moby_dick.htm (966 words)

	schuster.htm
		Ishmael also mirrors Brahma in his possession, for a moment at least, of four heads: "Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them, and lay together our own," he declares, calling the reader to bear witness to a pair of whales lashed to the Pequod (Melville, Moby Dick 427).
		Furthering the argument for Moby Dick's identification with Vishnu is the whale's ubiquity as reflected in reports "that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time" (243).
		Moby Dick, then, may be Melville's cure for ailments of the soul.
	www.temple.edu /gradmag/spring01/schuster.htm (4600 words)

	Title: Moby Dick
		The second obstacle, a great storm, that the Pequod crew interprets as another omen to turn away from their pursuit of Moby Dick.
		Ahab disregards the warning and re-institutes his pursuit of Moby Dick.
		Ishmael is immediately fascinated with him as the captain has a strong and dominate presence about him.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/strecker/240project/andrewgrimm.html (1226 words)

	Disney's Moby Dick.... [rec.humor.funny]
		The final scene has the whole crew on another boat where the captain is marrying Ishmael and Cellina with Moby Dick, Francesca, and Rigoletto jumping in and out of the water like you see in those Sea World shows.......
		Ahab says "Now I got you, Moby Dick!!!" Well, at that point Cellina screams, and Ishmael shouts "No!!!" But Right as Ahab is about to throw the harpoon, he is knocked overboard by Francesca and Riggoletto.
		MR: Also, Moby Dick doesn't have a big enough part in the book.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/96/Aug/melville.html (723 words)

	Moby-Dick
		But more noteworthy than the apparent triumph of critical fashion in the MLA book is the agreement of all—predeconstructionist, deconstructionist, and de-deconstructionist alike—about the “indeterminacy” of Moby-Dick, about the primacy of Ishmael's voice and the restlessness of his mind.
		Ishmael swings his rhetorical energies between the polar set pieces that please and that appall, between a universe governed by conscious power and a universe devoid of caring or of purpose that is connected in any way with ethics or morality.
		The rhetorical energies of the book indicate Ishmael's experiential openness, the redeeming feature that is the consequence of energies of pulsing oppositions in Melville, who, as Hawthorne put it, could “neither believe nor be comfortable in his unbelief” but who, comfortable or not, would not close himself to the implications of his experience.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n084/084019.htm (2672 words)

	Moby Dick
		Ishmael informs us of the value of whale oil, and how through the crew's deeds the lanterns of the world are lit; Ahab couldn't care less about anyone's lantern.
		Ishmael (Richard Basehart) is the narrator of the story, and all we learn of Captain Ahab is from what Ishmael tells us.
		Ishmael and his friend Queequeg (Frederick Ledebur) are searching for a whaling vessel to learn the trade.
	www.geocities.com /moviecritic.geo/reviews/m/mobydick.html (696 words)

	moby10b.txt
		MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY.
		The Project Gutenberg Etext of Moby Dick, by Herman Melville #3 in our series by Herman Melville This Project Gutenberg version of Moby Dick is based on a combination of the etext from the ERIS project at Virginia Tech and another from Project Gutenberg's archives, as compared to a public-domain hard copy.
		FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTSVer.04.29.93END* This etext was prepared by Daniel Lazarus and Jonesey Notes on this etext of Moby Dick: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/moby10b.txt (19232 words)

	Moby Dick (1998) (TV)
		Plot Outline: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
		when will moby dick be on usa movie network again?
		Ishmael: Well, I am, sir, if it be absolutely indispensible that I do so.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0120756 (571 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics): Books
		Rewrite Ishmael or Queequeg as a woman, make Moby Dick an alien whale from outer space, just do whatever it takes to make a new generation enjoy one of the greatest stories ever told, and see what storytelling used to be before television spoiled it all.
		The narrator, Ishmael, relates the tale of his first whaling voyage aboard the 'Pequod', starting with the reason he decided to sign up and ending with the ship's fateful encounter with Moby Dick.
		Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140620621 (1347 words)

	AmEx II Moby Dick Sirak
		Perhaps if Moby Dick took place in the Star Wars universe, the whale would be the incarnation of "The Force." Even though it does not appear to written in any way to relate to Star Wars, it does.
		Later in the book, Stubb realizes that if whales are the gods of the ocean, then Moby Dick is the G-d of all whales.
		Ishmael decides to turn in and, in the middle of the night, his roommate, a cannibal prince named Queequeg, arrives.
	www.neo.rr.com /12stark/12smith/Netpages/Moby/sirak.html (1675 words)

	PAL: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
		In Chapter 54 of Moby-Dick, Ishmael, the narrator, relates a tale of mutiny he once narrated&emdash;long before "telling" Moby-Dick itself&emdash;to a group of Spanish friends "smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn." The story may appear to be as much a rehearsal for Melville's later stories as it was for Moby-Dick itself.
		The German captain of the Jungfrau is ignorant of Moby Dick and is also inexperienced in whaling, permitting the Pequod's crew to defeat him in the capture of a bull whale.
		The crew of the Town-Ho tells a story hinting that Moby Dick may be considered an agent for the justice of heaven.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/melville.html (5648 words)

	Epilogue to Moby Dick
		Ishmael is the outcast, the wanderer, the lost one.
		The Fates have Ishmael sign up on the whaler because he is needed to bear the news of the Pequod’s end to all the world.
		Of course, Ishmael begins the story; so it’s conventionally satisfying to have the end bring us back to the beginning - "call me Ishmael " -a literary convention that often works well in tying up loose ends.
	www.nwctc.commnet.edu /fox/melville/epilogue.html (570 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Moby Dick -
		The fact that Moby Dick himself makes no appearance here is less of a disappointment than you would think; the play's total reliance on imagination allows us to accept the whale's presence without ever seeing him.
		Now we can say, "Look, it beckons!" Moby Dick, in a tight, spare adaptation by Julian Rad and under the exciting, imaginative direction by Hilary Adams, is beckoning audiences to the Ohio Theater.
		The basic plot concerns a man's quest for revenge: Captain Ahab, who lost his leg to the infamous white whale, uses his vessel and its crew to wreak his own personal revenge upon Moby Dick.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3875 (936 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web Triathlon: "Meditation and water are wedded forever" -Ishmael (Moby Dick)
		Triathlon: "Meditation and water are wedded forever" -Ishmael (Moby Dick)
		Like’s Melville’s Ishmael, I too found it necessary to set out upon the “sea” during a literal cold and drizzly November.
		Only the sea in this case was merely a four-lane, 25 yard pool near my house, and the white whale in this story is my swimming technique.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20051221_CZ_Rapp.html (1207 words)

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