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1.Typee泰皮 (1846) 2.Omoo欧穆 (1847) 3.Mardi玛蒂 (1849) 4.Redburn雷德本 (1849) 5.White-Jacket白外衣 (1850) 6.Moby-Dick (1851) 7.Pierre皮埃尔 (1852)
8.Israel Potter伊斯雷尔· 波特 (1855) 9.Piazza Tales广场故事 (1856) 10.The Confidence-Man骗子的化妆表演 11.Battle Pieces战事集 (1866) 12.Clarel克拉莱尔 (1876) 13.John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) 14.Timoleon梯摩里昂 (1891) 15.Billy Budd比利。巴德 (posthumous 16.Uncollected Prose (1839-1856)
1850 White Jacket白外衣; develops relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 Moby Dick Returns to “popular fiction” Topic: 800 pages about guy trying to find whale and get but hates it . back at it . Melville to Hawthorne (while Not as much of failure as Mardi, working on Moby Dick): “Dollars not successful; received but little notice. damn me. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned— it will not pay. Yet altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, all my books are botches.”
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After losing his leg he is determined to pursue Moby Dick and kill it. He hangs a doubloon on the mast as a reward for anyone who sights the white whale first.
Moby-Dick is a symbolic work, but also includes chapters on natural work. Major themes include obsession,religion, idealism versus pragmatism, revenge,racism,sanity, hierarchical relationships and politics.Man in this universe lives a meaningless and futile life, meaningless because futile. Man cannot overcome nature. Once he attempts to seek power over it he is doomed.
His works are symbolic and metaphorical. voyage- "search and discovery,the search for the ultimate truth of experience." the Pequod -the ship of the American soul Moby Dick ---a symbol of both evil and goodness its whiteness--- paradoxical color(death and corruption and purity, innocence, and youth)
Life Experience Major Works Writing styles
Appreciation of Moby Dick
(1819—1891)
1819 born in New York 1830 family bankrupt 1844 Typee泰皮 1832-3 family falls apart; H.M. drops out of school 1847 Marries Elizabeth Shaw Omo But wants to change writing, 1839 1st voyage at sea wants meaning; wants to 1841-1848 experiences at sea rebel, write banned books (37 books about it) 1849 Mardi玛地 and Redburn雷德
When the third day comes, Ahab and his crew manage to harpoon the whale, but it carries the Pequod along with it to its doom. All on board get drowned expect Ishmael, who is rescued by another whaler and survives to tell the story.
Eventually the white whale appears, and the Pequod begins its doomed fight against it. On the first day the whale smashes a whaleboat. The second day, another boat is swamped, the captain’s ivory leg is snapped off.
Moby Dick
The novel is the realistic account of a whaling voyage within which is set a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate.
Ishmael, the narrator, having little money and finding life on shore grim, decides to go to sea. He signs aboard the whaling ship named Pequod. It’s captain, Ahab, is a tall, broad man seemingly made of bronze. He has a white leg, made from the jaw of a sperm whale, because his own leg is torn away by Moby Dick— a huge white whale.
1866-1886 Job in Custom 1852-1867 Pierre皮埃尔, House; sons die Israel Potter伊斯雷尔· 波特 , 1891 H.M. dies trip to Europe, edits Hawthorne’s 1920 H.M. rediscovered as works, The Confidence Man an author 骗子的化妆表演 1867 abandons fiction Magazine writing to make $ Publishes short stories in Europe (including “Bartleby”) Emotionally wrung out from failures, careful of issues of offensiveness, still trying out technique of writing for two audiences at once.
In his early once Melville is more enthusiastic about setting out on a quest for the meaning of the universe, hence they are more metaphysical and the main characters are ardent and self-dramatizing "I", defying God, as best reflected in Moby Dick. In the later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the world of man in which one must live by the rules.
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