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rhona
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What is the story of Moby Dick, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol?

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Posted by rhona on Thursday October 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM and tagged with a christmas carol, a tale of two cities, literature, moby dick, story line.

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  1. parkerlee
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    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 miser's life is transformed through the magical visitation of otherworldly evoked spirits who reveal to him his true nature and show him a better sense of values.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/christmas-carol/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/moby-dick/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/tale-of-two-cities/summary

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    Posted by parkerlee on Friday October 23, 2009 at 4:29 AM