The exciting hunt of the white whale symbolizes the fight against evil.
Possessed by a thirst for revenge, Ahab risks his ship and crew to pursue Moby Dick across the world's seas.
Captain Ahab has only one objective: to kill the white whale that long ago tore off his left leg while they were fighting.
Melville sought to provide a monumental play, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and the Bible.
The novel describes the journey of the Pequod whaling ship and is completed with long passages about whales and whaling.
