Monday, May 30, 2011

Moby Dick

Hello everyone!

Last week we continued watching Moby Dick, one of my favourite movies. This week we are going to see its final part, but before that I would like to ask you some questions about Captain Ahab:

What did Moby Dick do to Captain Ahab? Describe how he reacted to the injury. Do you think obsessions like this can be dangerous?

Please answer the questions in individual posts.
Best wishes,

Oxana

5 comments:

  1. Ahab is the tyrannical captain of the Pequod who is driven by a monomaniacal desire to kill Moby Dick, the whale that maimed him on the previous whaling voyage. Although he is a Quaker, he seeks revenge in defiance of his religion's well-known pacifism.
    Yes. obsessions can cause harm and suffering of the most varied. It is an insistence on certain something or someone. What do people have unsafe and that could jeopardize the lives of innocent people, what ended up happening with Ahab, the captain and ended in the deaths of his crew.

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  2. Moby Dick reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass on the field. Almost since that fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished the wild vengeance against the whale.
    Sure! Every obssesions are dangerous, the obessesion destroys the people's life, the person gets so nuts with the vengeance that loses the control as we can see in Ahab: He is killed by his own harpoon, and symbolically killed by his own obsession with revenge.

    By: Dayana

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  3. Moby Dick at a leg of capitain ahab, with this capitain ahab has only one goal in life:revenge of moby Dick.
    obssessive think of revenge and very dangerous, because the capitain ahab is full of anger and rage,becoming blindly in the face of consequences that will come to fight with an animal much bigger than him.

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  4. A man injured by a whale. Moby Dick drew up haab's legs and also input in haab an bsession. Revenge. This revenge, took the most parte of Haab's life that during years, dedicated all his life to catch Moby dick and his obsession made many victims, including himself on his own death. His Revenge was not as bigger as Moby Dick's power, but was big enough to destroy men life!
    As you can see, how dangerous is the obsession.

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  5. Hi everybody! Moby Dick just reacted and took away the Ahab's leg. But, to Ahab, the whale destroyed his life.

    "All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." [Moby Dick, Herman Melville]

    The whale is just the "thing" he needed to blame.
    It happens with many people. I remember "The mathematics teacher's crime", by Clarice Lispector. An history which a man put on his dog all his troubles...
    Sometimes this can be dangerous, but sometimes is really good to think and analize your own problems. So, if a person have some obsession for something, this person need to stop and try to analize yourself. Before this obsession become bigger than your life and to destroy everything.

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