白鲸人与自然评论

北京航空航天大学

外国语学院07 级2009-2010 第二学期期末论文

Probing into the Relationship between Human

and Nature in Moby-Dick

对《白鲸》人与自然关系的探索

课程: 美国文学史

任课老师: 李英

学号: 37120130

姓名: 仝会桃

二零一零年六月

Probing into the Relationship between Human and Nature in Moby-Dick ----------Human’s Dominating Nature Leads to Tragedy

对《白鲸》人与自然关系的探索

--------人类支配自然必将导致悲剧

摘要：随着工业的发展，人与自然之间的关系已经不再像以前那么和谐那么和平了。人与自然之间存在的掠夺和被掠夺的关系破坏了自然环境的平衡。麦尔维尔的《白鲸》一个最显著的主题就是人与自然。小说中将亚哈与白鲸之间的斗争来解释了人与自然的关系，人类支配自然必将导致悲剧。

关键词：人，自然，关系

Abstract:With the development of the industry, the relationship between human and nature is becoming less as harmonious as before. The relation between human and nature, to deprive and to be deprived, destroyed the balance of the environment. Moby-Dick, written by Melville, showed the significant theme, human and nature. In the novel, the fight between Ahab and Moby-Dick is the explanation of the relationship between human and nature. Human’s dominating nature will lead to tragedy.

Key words: human, nature, relationship

Moby-dick, also known as The Whale, is a Great American Novel written by Herman Melville. It was published in 1851 during the peak time of American literature. It plays a great role in world literature. At that time The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorn and Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe were

published. The story tells the voyage of sailor Ishmael, his adventurous stories on the sea, and the voyage on the Pequod, a ship commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael finds that Ahab is seeking a certain white whale, Moby-Dick, which is enigmatic and ferocious. Once t his whale attacked Ahab’s ship and bit his leg. Ahab was trying to find it and kill it for revenge. After a long process of seeking Moby-Dick on the sea, Ahab and his crew finally found Moby-Dick and fought with it. However, Moby-Dick was extremely annoyed and attacked the ship and the small boats. All of the crew lost their lives except Ishmael.

The story tells the fight between Ahab and Moby-Dick; the relationship among Ahab and the sailors on the ship, and the relationship between man and society. As people say Moby-Dick is the representative of nature, while Ahab human. There are black and white people on the ship; that is about the man in society. This passage will analyze the relationship between human and nature.

Herman Melville uses many stylized languages, symbols and metaphors to state the motif of this novel. The themes of this novel are Melville’s bleak view of the world in which he lived, the alienation (man & man, man & nature, man & society), rejection and quest, God and Religion, good and evil.1

Nature plays an important role in the developing of the story. Ahab and his sailor are fishing the whale to make money as the spermaceti (鲸油)is very expensive. Sailing on the sea is a process of human working with nature. The weather will influence the direction of the ship. And whales are also part of the nature. They live