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Moby Dick is a rare book in American literature that excites the readers。 This is a powerful book, in order to understand American and American minds in the 19th century, people must read Moby Dick, because it is history, philosophy, religion and science encyclopedia。 In addition, this is also a detailed description of the operation of the whaling industry。

In 1851, Moby Dick was first published during October and titled “Whale” in London, but then republished as “Moby Dick” on November 14, in New York。 But at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the First World War was broke out。 At that time, the Americans woke up from the nightmare and the American dream was also disillusioned, so the interest in Moby Dick was re-outbreak。 

Melville said in Moby Dick, “To produce a ‘mighty book’, you have to choose a mighty theme。”(Melville 419) The revenge theme in Moby Dick has been discussed many times。 Ronald Mason argues that Moby Dick is a great job of “transforming symbolic images into a creative myth, embodying a significant reflection of the profoundest human preoccupations, was Melville’s achievement in Moby Dick。”(Mason 90) in the Spirit of Dust: Melville’s Research。 In Mason’s opinion, Moby Dick reflects Melville’s despair of philosophy, he said that “The United States has not yet given the world of the forest fictions, it undoubtedly proclaimed Melville’s spirit was desolate。”(Mason 100) In Henry A。 Murray’s article In Nomine Diaboli, he said that Ahab was an avenger whose action was considered to be a moral conflict against the cultural formed by Moby Dick。 He also thought that Ahab was aimed at opposing the cultural Superego and finding the true meaning of it。 Over the past two decades, the criticism and comment of Moby Dick mostly in articles along with thesis have continued to grow over。 Moby Dick was regarded wide as a tragedy of revenge or even a political allegory。 

As a result, the readers can understand why Moby Dick has so much and so contradictory ideas easily。 Moby Dick is a novel about the revenge, it not only shows the attacks on nature from human, but also shows a person’s opposition to the universe of evil。

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In American College Dictionary, “revenge” means “retaliation for injuries or wrongs” and a bitter desire to injure another person。 There are two meanings about the revenge theme in Moby Dick。 One is a manifestation of the moral explorations about good and evil。 Another is the contemplation on fixed destiny and human’s free will。 In this novel, Ahab’s revenge on Moby Dick seems to be a pain and shows us the style of Melville’s philosophy as well as his thoughts in his deep mind, because his revenge was resulted from his injury of the leg bitten by Moby Dick。 

3。1 Moral explorations about good and evil

Ahab’s revenge seemed that white whale was the object, and the Almighty God was his enemy。 Moby Dick bit him, so he thought Moby Dick personified evil。 He became more and more crankiness, and even regarded Moby Dick as the replacement of the Almighty God, so he wanted to fight against it。论文网

Revenge is a manifestation of the moral explorations about good and evil, and Melville has made a deep meditation of good and evil from the contradictions and completeness of the changes between them。 Melville believed that the whale was an object of a binary opposition, and in some extent, his mystical motive may have something to do with duality。 So, everyone tries to know about whales must take its persity into account。 Nevertheless, man is essentially a single nature, so when he tries to reconcile the contradictory things, he meets the difficulties。 Everything is a unity of contradiction and integration in the world, it has the opposite relationship。 Only struggle under the circumstances can it step forward。 So do good and evil。 As Cook said that “Good and evil we know in the field of this world grew up almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good was so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil。。。 that those confused seeds that were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to call out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed。”(Stern 62-63)