Quotes from Moby Dick (chapters36,86)
...till reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me!" Ahabs feelings are a twisted view on reality that relate to transcadentalism because he believes that getting revenge on the whale is worth risking his life and other mens lives. Religion- On Pg. 172 after getting the men to agree to follow along side him in the killing of moby dick Ahab yells out to the men “God bless ye, God bless ye men” Ahab says this because his crew has agreed to follow him and he wants to thank them and he wants to try to help keep them safe for the journey because he knows that it will be a dangerous chase. Faustism- On Pg.175 Ahab fills the goblets of all of the crew and tells them: “Drink and swear, Death to Moby Dick, God hunt us all if we do not hunt moby dick to his death. This section relate to Faustism because the men have devoted themselves to hunting and killing moby dick and if they do not they would be willing to face death. Chapter 86 Transcendentalism- On Pg. 399 Ahab is talking about the tail of the whale and he says That whatever the mood the whale is in that it’s tail’s flexions are invariably marked by exc...