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        <title><![CDATA[All three stories deal with personal obsession and the interposition of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All three stories deal with personal obsession and the interposition of fate in some way.
In Melville's Moby Dick, a captain of a whaling boat wants to "settle accounts" with a sperm whale and takes it on as his personal antagonist; London and Paris are the backdrop for Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, in which intrigue is built around the lives of people caught up in the events of the French Revolution; in A Christmas Carol, also by Dickens, a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the story of Moby Dick, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the story of Moby Dick, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:12:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In one of the greatest first paragraphs ever written in the English...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In one of the greatest first paragraphs ever written in the English language, Ishmael tells the reader of a frame of mind he gets into on occasion. I suppose one would call the mental condition depression, for it is filled with talk of gloom and November drizzle, of anger and coffins and funerals. And whenever Ishmael gets to feeling this way, when he's feeling "grim about the mouth," what is the surest antidote? He finds a ship and goes to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:58:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Ishmael do whenever he finds himself growing “grim about the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Ishmael do whenever he finds himself growing “grim about the mouth" in Moby Dick?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:18:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:30:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Moby Dick, why did Starbuck protest Ahab's intention to kill Moby Dick?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Moby Dick, why did Starbuck protest Ahab's intention to kill Moby Dick?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:27:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ahab, the captain of the Pequod, is an intimidating gray-haired man with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ahab, the captain of the Pequod, is an intimidating gray-haired man with two of his most distinguishing features being a peg-leg made of whale bone (needed after his last encounter with Moby Dick) and a huge white scar running down the length of his face.  Ahab is a man who inspires all sorts of myths and legends.  His delayed entrance into the novel helps these myths and legends to grow even bigger.  One myth surrounds his scar. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:45:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Give a brief description of Ahab (the captain in Moby Dick) that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Give a brief description of Ahab (the captain in Moby Dick) that expresses what sort of man he is.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:52:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The climax of Moby Dick is most certainly when Ahab finds the white...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The climax of Moby Dick is most certainly when Ahab finds the white whale and, after three days of "giving chase," plunges his harpoon into Moby's side only to get caught around the neck with the line and die as a result.  Enotes explains the climax of the plot quite well in its Guide to Literary Terms:

Climax - the moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis comes to its point of greatest intensity. 

This...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:24:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was the climax and the goal of Moby Dick? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was the climax and the goal of Moby Dick? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:37:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The rest of the quote continues, "I am old--shake hands with me."  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The rest of the quote continues, "I am old--shake hands with me."  The previous points in the conversation are leading to death.  The old man is telling Starbuck that he does not know where or when the hour of death will come, but he knows that since he is old, that the hour must be close at hand. I believe the definition of comb used in this quote would be that of a wave- (A comb is sometimes used to describe certain types of waves).  So...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:24:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you please paraphrase this sentence?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you please paraphrase this sentence?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:17:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Find a figure of speech in one of the excerpts from Moby-Dick, name the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Find a figure of speech in one of the excerpts from Moby-Dick, name the figure of speech, and paraphrase the sentence.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:10:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Herman Melville's dark classic "Moby Dick" reaches its climax after many...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Herman Melville's dark classic "Moby Dick" reaches its climax after many long chapters on the anatomy of whale, the abnormal and evil connotations of white, and the strange introspections of the obsessed Captain Ahab, who seeks the great white whale for revenge, but also as the key to some metaphysical answer.  For when the first mate, Starbuck tells Ahab "To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous," Ahab replies,

Hark...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:09:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the climax and resolution of the novel "Moby Dick"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the climax and resolution of the novel "Moby Dick"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:12:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[nyeong,

Allegory - an extended metaphor in which a person, abstract...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[nyeong,

Allegory - an extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else. It usually involves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than the actual narrative. (http://www.enotes.com/literary-terms/allegory)

Moby-Dick, published by Herman Melville (1819−1891) in 1851, breaks with the familiar form of the Anglo-European novel (life story, linear plot, societal backdrop) to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:16:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Moby Dick]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is "Moby Dick" an allegorical novel?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is "Moby Dick" an allegorical novel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 9 May 2009 22:44:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The response made by jamie-wheeler is good but makes a critical error....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The response made by jamie-wheeler is good but makes a critical error. William S. Gleim is not talking about Ahab in this quotation but about Herman Melville's thoughts on philosophy and insanity. Although it could apply it is incorrect to assume that it does necessarily.
That said, I believe that the relation of insanity to the story is partly rooted in Melville's justification for the journey, shown in Ahab through his monomaniacal...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:58:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Moby Dick Study Guide (Enhanced eBook)]]></title>
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