List Of Ahab Quotes

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As Herman Melville Wrote Of That Seagoing Monster Of A Man Captain Ahab, “all Mortal Greatness Is But Disease.

Captain Ahab Was A Man Possessed With An Obsessional Drive To Pursue The White Whale Which Had Harmed Him - Which Had Torn His Leg Out - To The Ends Of The Earth, No Matter What Happened. In The Final Scene Of The Novel, Captain Ahab Is Being Borne Out To Sea, Wrapped Around The White Whale With The Rope Of His Own Harpoon And Going Obviously To His Death. It Was A Scene Of Almost Suicidal Finality.

Captain Ahab Drowned, He Reminded Himself; It Was The Trimmer, Ishmael, Who Survived.

The Author Of The Mahabharata Has Not Established The Necessity Of Physical Warfare; On The Contrary He Has Proved Its Futility.