Compare and Contrast Moby Dick and The Fall of the House of Usher
...2) His main goal is to find Moby Dick, which is the whale that bit of his leg and gave him this horrible scar. He doesn’t care about the money of catching any whale; all he wants is Moby and doesn’t care about the safety of his crewmembers, only his satisfaction, when u have revenge it eats up your soul. In the Fall of the House of usher the narrator notes to the readers that there is only one member of the family that survives each generation therefore Usher wanted to kill his twin sister Madeline, he read gothic books, and end up burring his sister alive. “He stated his intention of preserving her corpse for a fortnight (previously to its final interment), in one of the numerous vaults within the main wall of the building.”(Pg241-242). Their evil actions were to get revenge and to keep the family tradition. Their motives are quit different in the sense that Ahab put it on himself after he was attacked and directly went after Moby, but as in usher he did it because it was a family tradition and he had to keep his family line more indirect. There was no revenge for Usher just to keep the family tradition by only having on male family member. “Moby- Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.”(Pg 306) That is his motive he wants this poor white whale that his bitten off his leg. As in Usher “The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had molded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him what he was, Such opinions need no comment, and I will make none.”(Pg 241) The Usher read a lot of books like The Belphegor of Machiavelli, basically just books on gothic things and he went physco. In Moby Dick, Captain Ahab constantly was in his boat cabin, secluded himself from everyone until the white whale Moby Dick appeared. He was very depressed and nothing else mattered to him other than Moby Dick. “It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin- gangway to the deck, There most sea captains usually walk at that hour, as country gentleman, after the same meal, take a few turns in the garden.” (Pg 305) Usher was isolated because he had a condition that he was sensitive to light, smells and didn’t have many friends; he live...