Is the pequod just one person?

No it's a boat

dafuq?

>>7894970
Enschuldigen Sie, bitte?

>>7896133
is the pequod one person? As in, is each person and component in the ship just part of the human brain?

Everyone on the ship is so polarized in terms of personality (save groups of people like the harpooneers) that it seems melville is trying to disect the human brain into all these different parts. Notice how Ishmael doesn't really have much personality, and knows things about the boat that he shouldn't.

>>7896315
If Melville modeled the Pequod after any human body part it would be the penis.

>>7896369
Why

>>7896315
Yeah Melville does make the ship into an individual at times, with Ahab as the brain of sorts. It's only metaphor though, he isn't implying Ishmael is some disembodied ship-essence. The coming together of the men on the ship is most obviously a commentary on human society, and its attempt to combat the forces of nature, as well as its inevitable doom when its 'brain' is set to the impossible task of defeating an uncaring world.

>>7896375
He was what the medical community refers to as an ass-bandit

>>7896383
Felt the same, that the boat is a microcosm of society, but also that the fight within the human brain is similar to that of society

>>7894970
it's a trans-whale

the pequod is indian retard