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Is there any truth to this?
>Ahab is virtually a human monolith, a Promethean figure. He takes his multinational crew in maniacal pursuit of the white whale which took off his leg (and, Melville implies, more than that: as a friend of mine quipped, a better title for the book might be Moby-no-Dick).
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/12/white-whale-big-smoke-how-geography-london-inspired-moby-dick
Currently reading Moby-Dick for the first time in English (not my native language, but I manage, the cetological and actual story portions are really enjoyable), just passed Ahab's first description and couldn't find any of those implications so far. Should I expect them to pop up eventually?
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He really hated that fucking whale.
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>>7596163
Oh I'm laffin.
Actually OP, I've read it twice and haven't thought of that before, but it does make some sense.
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>>7596067
been a while since i read the book but as far as i can remember there is some mentioning of him losing his third leg
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I'm pissed. Royally... Pissed.
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>>7596178
What I’ve dared, I’ve willed; and what I’ve willed, I’ll do! They think me mad – Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and – Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.
This is an internal monologue of Ahab. If he lost his dick I think it would be in his thoughts.
People are obsessed with dicks and I think they project this onto books/characters. Can't a guy just be pissed he lost his leg?
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>I like my steak as tough and bloody as the damn sharks out there
Only thing I remember from reading this seventh grade. Also took that quote to heart.
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>>7596067
I doubt it's truth, I've read it closely and never picked up on that. And if it is true, I hope that academia doesn't figure it out otherwise it'll be studied under the influence of Freud and Lacan and Fanon or whatever they read now as a text of "emasculation"
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>>7596199
>dismember
>disMEMBER
>disPENIS
how do you miss this
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>>7596215
>and – Aye! I lost this leg
Dismember
Verb
To cut off the limbs of
Doesn't have to mean penis
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>>7596199
Beginning of chapter 106.
>[...] he had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible; by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.
It's ambiguous but it's certainly hinted that Ahab was castrated as well.
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>>7596067
It's a simple story about a man that hates an animal. Why do people try to look for deeper meanings than there are?
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>>7596320
"all but pierced his groin" would seem to indicate that although coming close it did not effect his dick
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>>7596402
There's a point where people tend to overanalyze things but to say that it's just about "a man hating an animal" is to oversimplify things to say the least.
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