"The Scarlet Letter" How would the characters see the white whale? Mentiones also Melville's Moby Dick

Title: "The Scarlet Letter" How would the characters see the white whale? Mentiones also Melville's Moby Dick
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"The Scarlet Letter" How would the characters see the white whale? Mentiones also Melville's Moby Dick

        In Melville's Moby Dick our narrator, Ishmael, has a unique view on the great white whale. '...all these are but subtle deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurement's cover nothing but the charnel-house within...' By examining his remarks, we can tell he is a very down-to-earth man; however, Melville uses a common theme of 'how do you know …showed first 75 words of 992 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 992 total…both try and play a god-like-role and end up as devils. That is why they both would see the whale as purely a representation of all the evil in the world.         'The Albino whale was all of these things, wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?' The whiteness is purely a cosmetic, but as it always is, no one thing means anything definitely. The meaning lies in the value an individual gives to that object.

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