Moby-Dick: Difference between revisions

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* [[Doorstopper]]

* [[Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods]]: The crew of the ''Pequod'' once gets to spot a giant squid, and find it even scarier than Moby Dick himself.

* [[First Person Peripheral Narrator]]: Ishmael tells the story, and at first appears to be the main character, but as the story goes on he becomes more and more peripheral to the story to the point that he almost disappears while Captain Ahab and the titular whale take center stage as the main characters.

* [[First-Person Peripheral Narrator]]: Ishmael tells the story, and at first appears to be the main character, but as the story goes on he becomes more and more peripheral to the story to the point that he almost disappears while Captain Ahab and the titular whale take center stage as the main characters.

* [[Food Porn]]: Chapter 15 is about eating... chowder.

** But will they have clam chowder, or cod chowder? {{spoiler|[[Take a Third Option|or maybe BOTH]]?}}

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** [[Justified]]. "Avast" is an actual period nautical command, and it (and a few others) are used correctly in the story.

* [[The Man With No Name]]: Ishmael, if one interprets "Call me Ishmael" to imply that this is ''not'' his true name.

* [[Truth in Television]]: Believe it or not, this book was based very heavily on a true story. Although, the story of ''Moby-Dick'' is quite a "softened" version of the actual events -- the ''real'' tale is far more gruesome and chilling. [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Essex_%28whaleship%29~~ Read for yourself]. Also, it should be noted the angry ship-sinking cetacean was actually a sperm whale.

* [[Truth in Television]]: Believe it or not, this book was based very heavily on a true story. Although, the story of ''Moby-Dick'' is quite a "softened" version of the actual events -- the ''real'' tale is far more gruesome and chilling. [[wikipedia:Essex chr(28)whaleshipchr(29)|Read for yourself]]. Also, it should be noted the angry ship-sinking cetacean was actually a sperm whale.

** Chapter XLV of the novel itself cites the real-life story as evidence that a sperm whale can indeed sink a ship.

* [[Super Persistent Predator]]: Captain Ahab. A human version.

* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: Captain Ahab. A human version.

* [[Tragic Hero]]: Ahab really doesn't seem to be a bad captain, certainly better than the captain in the [[Show Within a Show|story within the story]] whom could have ended a mutiny merely by promising to not abuse his men any more but refuses out of pride. He simply suffers from a [[Fatal Flaw]] of becoming [[Revenge Before Reason|obsessed with vengeance]].

** Ahab even has a wife and son at home, though he mentions them only once, so everyone else who's ever read the book (except Sena Naslund, author of the novel ''Ahab's Wife'') might be forgiven for forgetting that.