Ahab Symbol of solipsism, revenge and thDick
1. Search for truth The story deals with the human pursuit of truth and the meaning of existence.
Queequeg’s coffin Life and death
The name 'Ishmael' stems from that of the first son of Abraham in the Old Testament.
Abraham
Hagar Sarah
Ishmael Isaac
The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts.
Captain Ahab: the Captain of the Pequod. He is reaching his sixties. He believes he is fated to kill Moby Dick and lives for this purpose alone for this whale took Ahab's leg, causing him to use a leg made of the jaw of a whale to walk and stand.
"Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick- but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?" "Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, … it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye," he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heartstricken moose; …