...Wyck Brooks compares the White Whale with Grendel. "Was not Grendel", he asks, "also the symbol of 'all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil visibly personified?'" One is inclined to wonder at times just what Melville's own idea of the White...

...lost a leg in the jaws of the whale, is driven by a wild passion of revenge which has maddened him. " All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." Infected himself, Ahab infects his crew with his frenzy, and leaving behind them the vivid actualities...

...lost a leg in the j aws of the whale, is driven by__ajKrild passion of revenge which has maddened him. All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs.../cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle i | demonisms of life and thought ; all evil, to crazy Ahab, / were visibly personified, and made practically...

...purpose till it had acquired a stupendous significance for him. So with the captain of the "Pequod": "All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...personified and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." The man is in the grip of a passion so single and inveterate that his mind cannot admit the possibility...

..."Beowulf" might almost be described as the prototype of the White Whale. Was not Grendel also the symbol of "all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil — visibly personified" ? vw B. 16. v. 23. PLEASE RETURN TO ALDERMAN LIBRARY DUE DUE xx ooi sm 352...

..."Beowulf" might almost be described as the prototype of the White Whale. Was not Grendel also the symbol of "all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil — visibly personified"? [205] THE NOVELS OF UPTON SINCLAIR THE NOVELS OF UPTON SINCLAIR • N 1889,...

...profound symbolism all compact. "Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete." "All evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick." The struggle is symbolized between the eternal ruthlessness of nature and the enmity of...

...some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a being.... All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...lees of things; all truth with malice in it... all evil" were realized for him in Moby 16 Dick. 17 18 To. "crazy Ahab", "more a demon than a man", the...

...deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to craze Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.2 Now to point an...

...when he gets behind the pasteboard mask, he sees Moby Dick as only representing one thing, evil--"all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick" (p. l80l. When Ahab insists that the whale has only one meaning out of many possible meanings, he becomes...