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Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb is a 2022 four-part sports documentary by Secret Base's Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein, about Dave Stieb, a baseball pitcher, whose pursuit of a no-hitter is likened to Ahab chasing the white whale. [61] [62] Stieb, who was not involved in the documentary's production, also noted the similarity. [63]
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
Captain Ahab is the tyrannical captain of Pequod. Prior to the events of the novel, Captain Ahab lost his leg while hunting Moby Dick, leading to a monomaniacal desire in Ahab to kill the "White Whale". It is his obsession with Moby Dick that dooms Pequod and her crew, with Ishmael as the sole survivor. Following his introduction, Ahab ...
The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of 90 ft (27 m) [2] (larger than any officially recorded sperm whale) [3] and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived. Ahab tells the crew that the White Whale can be told because he has an unusual ...
But there's still one that eludes him, like Moby-Dick staying ahead of Captain Ahab. Yang revealed his "white whale" dream guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show, and also thought of a new twist that ...
Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the book. Because Ishmael plays a minor role in the plot, early critics of Moby-Dick assumed that Captain Ahab was the protagonist.
Pollard's life, including his encounter with the sperm whale that sank Essex, likely served as inspiration for Captain Ahab, the whale-obsessed character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. [1] Pollard also appears as a character in Melville's Clarel. Various books and films have been created that explain the experiences of Pollard and his crews.
Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.