"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby D*ck. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
Select the correct answer. Based on the following excerpt, in what ways does the whale serve as a contextual symbol for humanity in Herman Melville’s Moby-D*ck? A. The whale symbolizes the character’s anger about being out on the ocean. B. The whale, described as white, symbolizes the purity of humanity’s intentions. C. Because the whale is so evasive, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s struggle with discovering the meaning of life. D. Because the whale is described as white, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s passion for discovering new things.
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The correct option is C
Because the whale is so evasive, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s struggle with discovering the meaning of life.
Explanation:
- Melville is representing Moby Di and he has witnessed a number of things.
- Some of the things that he witnessed were evil, universal, natural, and even God.
- The white whale, in the story, has been shown to symbolize enigmatic and inscrutability.
- It's a challenging point for the readers.
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Because the whale is so evasive, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s struggle with discovering the meaning of life.
Explanation:
- The whale serve as a mark of humanity in the story because of its vagueness.
- It's impre-cision in being white and the role of nature and fa-te serves as a symbol of mankind's struggle with uncovering the meaning of life.
- This inscru-tability and eni-gmatic representation becomes a challenge for the readers' understanding.
- Thus, option C is the correct answer.
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