1. Moby Dick, the White Whale An interpretation

2. Points to ponder 1. The five conflicts: man - man, God, society, nature, and himself 2. The big white whale ( an archetype, a brother, a super-natural power, a teacher, a destroyer of human will and determination) 3. Ahab ( a sea captain, a leader, a tragic figure) 4. Ishmael ( a wanderer, a fortune teller, a recorder and observer of human tragedy) 5. The beauty of human tragedy--- any human hero is an Ahab, and any great human act is, to some extent. tragic.

3. Man and water

4. Our powerful brother created by God one day older than us

5. Melville’s day

6. The conflict between the brothers

7. We will be punished if we have killed our brother

8. Brother killing brother

9. Ahab in the novel Ahab in the movie

10. Ishmael and his mother

11. Jesus Christ and his mother

12. Cultural products of Moby Dick by H. Melville

13. The super-natural power God The human fate The testing stone The unknown difficulties To be, or not to be, that’s a question