How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melvi
2024-07-28英美文学选读(00604)
How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick?
【正确答案】：The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well. However, the whale represents only evil. Moby Dick, is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. For the author, as well as the reader and ishmael, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.
【正确答案】：The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well. However, the whale represents only evil. Moby Dick, is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. For the author, as well as the reader and ishmael, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.
