Captain Ahab's Anti-Transcendentalist Views In Moby Dick

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In October of 1851, Herman Melville published a book about a great white whale. This book was later created into a movie, and there are many different renditions. In every version Ishmael leaves the city and wants to experience the life on the sea. He meets his unlikely friend, a native harpooner, and he sets sail on a boat with a revenge seeking captain. While Captain Ahab is in search of the whale that ate his leg, the rest of the crew is growing tired of not making any profits. These events cause readers to look at Melville with an anti-transcendentalist view. In Moby Dick, Melville’s anti-transcendentalist views are present in Captain Ahab’s character, the sea, and Moby Dick’s revenge. In Moby Dick, Melville’s anti-transcendentalist views

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