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RANK this book!!
a low 7 - it is just not that good.
I did not like it very much. I give it a 5
Classic Transcendentalist work. Ahab seeks absolute truth, but such knowledge is beyond man, so he fails. The sea is a good metaphor for truth--looks pretty simple on the surface, but SO much lurks below. The whale is the color of death. Ahab sacrifices everything--even his crew's lives--to seek that whale. He is Transcendental mad.
The novel itself is awfully long and moves very slowly in parts, with all the descriptions. Even the film versions are pretty dry and dull at times. I would rank this novel 8 or 9.
The novel itself is awfully long and moves very slowly in parts, with all the descriptions. Even the film versions are pretty dry and dull at times. I would rank this novel 8 or 9.
Moby-Dick's exploration of transcendental ideals, enlightenment age ideology, and theology/metaphysics is as oceanic as the rolling plains Melville explores, and the book itself serves as a vessel for readers to explore their own thoughts on these issues. I rate the Moby-Dick a 10. I rate Grade Saver's analysis of the book a 1. Its author is a monomaniacal Ahab who should reread the chapter called the Doubloon and apply it to his or her self.
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