...transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...

...Brooks compares the White Whale with Grendel. "Was not Grendel", he asks, "also the symbol of 'all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs up...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil visibly personified?'" One is inclined to wonder at times just what Melville's own idea of the White...

...'not only with all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations ' : . All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...

...leg in the- jaws of the whale, is driven by a wild passion of revenge which has maddened him. " All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." Infected himself, Ahab infects his crew with his frenzy, and leaving behind them the vivid actualities...

...transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...

...leg in the j aws of the whale, is driven by__ajKrild passion of revenge which has maddened him. All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up.../cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle i | demonisms of life and thought ; all evil, to crazy Ahab, / were visibly personified, and made practically...

...purpose till it had acquired a stupendous significance for him. So with the captain of the "Pequod": "All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up...personified and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." The man is in the grip of a passion so single and inveterate that his mind cannot admit the possibility...

...might almost be described as the prototype of the White Whale. Was not Grendel also the symbol of "all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs up...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil — visibly personified" ? vw B. 16. v. 23. ' 1 AC 5 .F86 The Freeman ...

...transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...

...transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up...personified, and made practically assailable, in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...