Ishamel and Ahab

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Ishmael

Ahab

  • Refuses to define the whale
  • multiculturalism
  • Wide vision
  • Humorous
  • Bodily Wholeness
  • Lyrical and inquisitive
  • forces definition
  • Racial difference
  • Blindness
  • Purposeful
  • Deadly Serious and Mad
  • Man of mechanical parts
  • Fixed references- Bible,Shakespeare, Milton

Differences 

Similarities 

  • Ishmael has a connectedness whereas with Ahab we get the sense of isolation
  • With Ishmael we get the sense of democratic equality whereas with Ahab we get the sense of Hierarchy
  • Ishmael has a sense of Tolerance whereas with Ahab we get the sense of revenge
  • Ishmael accepts contradiction whereas Ahab has a singular knowledge
  • Ishmael goes to sea top explore whereas Ahab goes to sea aggressively
  • worldly wise and intelligent
  • Shared sense of loss and grief
  • Both slaves (to their status and objectives)
  • Searching for meaning
  • Contradictions
  • Narrative consciousness merge
  • Sense of masculine urge to conquer and destroy nature #
  • Imbalance in nature and society

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