Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Ahab” in chapter 2.17 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
...ers, who knew him as Mocha Dick.
It remained for Melville to lend some kind of poetic or moral significance to a struggle ordinarily conducted for no cause but profit.
As he handles the story, Ahab , who has lost a leg in the jaws of the whale, is driven by a wild desire for revenge which has maddened him and which makes him identify Moby Dick with the very spirit of evil and hatred.
Ahab, not...
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