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monkey123
monkey123
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High School - 12th Grade

What might the dents on ahabs furrowed brow symbolize?

begging of story

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Posted by monkey123 on Sunday November 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM and tagged with dents, moby dick.

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  1. kimfuji Teacher
    College - Freshman

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    It's a way of foreshadowing the outcome where Moby Dick rams the ship with his mighty forehead. The whale sinks the ship. Moby Dick is the alter ego of Ahab. (You could compare it to Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" where it is a fight between Santiago and the sea.) However in this fable it is about Ahab and the whale. Of course the whale wins. And it takes him, Ahab, down to the bottom of the sea with him. He is swallowed alive by this subconscious force that Moby Dick symbolizes.

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    Posted by kimfuji on Sunday November 15, 2009 at 10:45 PM