"Moby Dick," Melville is the most outstanding works of American literature is a classic book.
Harper describes a novel Ming Jiaoai whaler's crew,led by the captain,called a hunt Moby.Dick white whale.Finally,both sides suffer,and people getting killed Chuan Chen,the only crew member survived Ishmael,to us,on this tragic story.
"Moby Dick" is a masterpiece of world literature.At the same time,it has several different meanings.It is the killing of a thrilling adventure novel Moby Dick.More importantly,it is described by a person with the natural fate of the match and the nightmare.It is designed to show that people can observe the world,or even the world has a certain impact on the force,but,fundamentally speaking,he could not conquer,or about natural.As long as people are not bold and self-defeating,nature will be happy to let him live peacefully.
"Moby Dick" is a symbol of American literature in the use of a typical way."Moby Dick" meaning different:Some people see it as "good" symbol,it was felt that it was "evil" embodied,and it is the poor who do not eternal nature of evil.The author described in "Moby Dick" is quite mysterious color.
Melville"s style can be summarized in five points.
(I) His writing is consciously literary.His rich rhythmical prose and poetic power show his high craftsmanship.He made many references to former authors in their works,the Bible and Shakespeare in particular.In Moby Dick,for example,there are many allusions to classical myths.Therefore,Moby Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic,a Shakespearean tragedy of man fighting against overwhelming odds in an indifferent and even hostile world.The literary quality of Melville"s style makes him extremely difficult to understand.On the one hand,much of the talk in the novel is sailor talk; on the other hand,he wrote in an old style.Some of his language is old-fashioned manifesting Elizabethan influence.He did so purposely to raise the importance of the subject that he was discussing.
(2) There is a threefold quality in his writing:the style of fact,the style of oratory celebrating the fact,and the style of meditation.Melville was influenced by popular American oratory,known as the Lyceum movement in the 1830s,1840s,and 1850s.Melville himself gave such public lectures sometimes.Therefore,he wrote as if he were giving a public speech.
(3) His style is highly symbolic and metaphorical.In this respect he was like Nathaniel Hawthorne.Moby Dick is a tragic epic,a romance of moral inquiry about the nature of good and evil,and about the power of will to defy fate.It is a naturalistic story of whale-hunting,yet metaphorical and symbolic.The ship on the ocean is a symbol of the whole world with people of every land sailing across the waters of life in quest of its mystery.The voyage is a metaphor for search and discovery.The ship is one of the American soul.The ship is also a microcosm of American society.It contains representatives of most social and ethnic groups,and their various reactions to the chase.Moby Dick itself represents the mystery of the universe.
(4) This hook has many non-narrative chapters,and this is how Melville changed an adventure story into a philosophical novel.Many chapters in the hook have nothing to do with" the search for the whale; rather,these chapters give factual background information about what goes on aboard the ship on a routine day.It contains all of life.
(5) He used the technique of multiple views to achieve the effect of ambiguity.
Age has been left out in the cold and then reproduce the splendor of the great works in the history of literature is not uncommon.American romantic novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891) masterpiece "Moby Dick" (Moby Dick) was at one time was in the nineteenth century American literature flooded by the tide,after more than half a century of silence,When the people of a new era with a new perspective to re-examine it,this epic literary masterpiece,just as deep in the tomb of jewelry will see a bright future,the dazzling light emitted unprecedented.Now it has become a world recognized the great literary masterpiece,known as "the mirror of the times" and "American imagination of the most brilliant expression"