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- Captain_Ahab abstract "Captain Ahab is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, leaving him with a prosthesis made out of whalebone. Instead of leading the Pequod on a whaling voyage for profit, Ahab seeks revenge on the whale and casts his spell over the crew-members to enlist them in his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted and hunted down, Ahab's hate robs him of all caution and denies him revenge. Moby Dick drags Ahab to the bottom of the sea.Melville biographer Andrew Delbanco calls Ahab \"a brilliant personification of the very essence of fanaticism\". F. O. Matthiessen calls attention to the fact that Ahab is called an \"ungodly god-like man\". Ahab's \"tragedy is that of an unregenerate will\" whose \"burning mind is barred out from the exuberance of love\" and argues that he \"remains damned\". D. H. Lawrence felt little sympathy for Ahab and found that the whale should have \"torn off both his legs, and a bit more besides\".The character of Ahab was created under the influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet and figures in biblical and classical literature such as Shakespeare and Milton. His prosthesis, for instance, has been taken for an allusion to the Oedipus myth.Ahab is firmly established in popular culture by cartoons, comic books, films and plays. Most famously, he provided J. M. Barrie with the model for his Captain Hook character, who is obsessed not with a whale but a crocodile.".
- Captain_Ahab creator Herman_Melville.
- Captain_Ahab occupation Sea_captain.
- Captain_Ahab religion Quakers.
- Captain_Ahab series Moby-Dick.
- Captain_Ahab thumbnail Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg?width=300.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageOutDegree "63".
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageRevisionID "703887697".
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Ahab.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Ahab_(comics).
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Andrew_Delbanco.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Books_of_Kings.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Captain_Hook.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Category:Characters_in_American_novels_of_the_19th_century.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictional_amputees.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Character_(arts).
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Olson.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink D._H._Lawrence.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Demons_and_Wizards_(band).
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink F._O._Matthiessen.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink G._Thomas_Tanselle.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Gregory_Peck.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Hamlet.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Harpoon.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Honolulu.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Io_(mythology).
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink John_Milton.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink King_Lear.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Merton_M._Sealts,_Jr..
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Metal_Gear_Solid_V:_The_Phantom_Pain.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Moby-Dick.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Nantucket.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Narcissus_(mythology).
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Oedipus.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Peanuts.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Pequod_(Moby-Dick).
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Punished_%22Venom%22_Snake.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Ray_Bradbury.
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- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Touched_by_the_Crimson_King.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Typhoon.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink William_Shakespeare.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Zeus.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLink Zoroastrianism.
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ahab".
- Captain_Ahab wikiPageWikiLinkText "Captain Ahab".
- Captain_Ahab caption "Ahab in his final chase with Moby Dick".
- Captain_Ahab children "Unnamed son".
- Captain_Ahab creator Herman_Melville.
- Captain_Ahab gender "Male".
- Captain_Ahab name "Ahab".
- Captain_Ahab nationality "American".
- Captain_Ahab nickname "Old Thunder".
- Captain_Ahab occupation Sea_captain.
- Captain_Ahab religion Quakers.
- Captain_Ahab series Moby-Dick.
- Captain_Ahab significantother "Unnamed wife".
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- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Characters_in_American_novels_of_the_19th_century.
- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Fictional_amputees.
- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Fictional_antiheroes.
- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Fictional_characters_introduced_in_1851.
- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Fictional_ship_captains.
- Captain_Ahab subject Category:Moby-Dick.
- Captain_Ahab hypernym Character.
- Captain_Ahab type Agent.
- Captain_Ahab type FictionalCharacter.
- Captain_Ahab type Person.
- Captain_Ahab type Person.