The Use of Allegory in Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (552 words, 1 pages)
"...I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance. How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if though gettest it, Captain Ahab?" This quote from Moby Dick is an example of the use of allegory to symbolize the stupidity of vengeance. Several of the selections from the ...
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