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English, 25.03.2020 02:56 christophercordero15

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All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Di--. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

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Based on the following excerpt, in what ways does the whale serve as a contextual symbol for humanity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dic-?
A.
The whale symbolizes the character’s anger about being out on the ocean.
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The whale, described as white, symbolizes the purity of humanity’s intentions.
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Because the whale is so evasive, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s struggle with discovering the meaning of life.
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Because the whale is described as white, it becomes a symbol of humanity’s passion for discovering new things.

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