Obsession and Revenge

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Melville, Herman Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

“Call me Ishmael.”

Chapter 1. Loomings. · The novel's iconic opening line immediately establishes the narrator as a survivor with a story to tell and an identity deliberately left somewhat mysterious.

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

Chapter 36. The Quarter-Deck. · Ahab's own admission reveals his awareness of his irrational obsession even as he cannot stop himself from pursuing it.

“From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

Chapter 135. The Chase—Third Day. · Ahab's final declaration to Moby Dick encapsulates his consuming hatred and the tragic inevitability of his fate.