"supernatural design, and herein lies the acme of their tragic hubris."" Prometheus, mistakenly convinced that Zeus planned the destruction of man, stole fire in order to contravene the will of the god; Ahab, thinking his mind can penetrate the mystery of evil, is convinced that killing Moby Dick will ""expel evil from the cosmos."" In a tragedy a hero has a mad counterpart: ""Prometheus"" has Io, ""Moby-Dick"" has Pip. The madness of Io and Pip is caused by their unintentional contact with the primal elements or with the deity. ""The Pip who dances and shakes his tambourine before Queequeg's coffin,"""
"Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the ""Pequod"" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of"
"""He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man"" who nevertheless ""has his humanities"". They hire Queequeg the following morning. A man named Elijah prophesies a dire fate should Ishmael and Queequeg join Ahab. While provisions are loaded, shadowy figures board the ship. On a cold Christmas Day, the ""Pequod"" leaves the harbor. Ishmael discusses cetology (the zoological classification and natural history of the whale), and describes the crew members. The chief mate is 30-year-old Starbuck, a Nantucket Quaker with a realist mentality, whose harpooneer is Queequeg; second mate is Stubb, from Cape Cod, happy-go-lucky and cheerful, whose harpooneer is Tashtego, a proud,"
"based on Moby Dick. German doom metal band Ahab is named after the character. Singer Bob Dylan references the character in his 1965 song ""Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"" from the album ""Bringing It All Back Home"". Singer Tom Waits also references the character in his song ""Shiver Me Timbers"" on his 1974 album The Heart of Saturday Night. Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he"
"Job Hartop Job Hartop was an English adventurer who enlisted as chief gunner on John Hawkins' third voyage to the Caribbean. He became stranded and was captured by the Spanish authorities after the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1568) and used as a galley slave. A ship in which he was serving was subsequently captured, and he returned to England. As chief gunner, which would more normally be expressed as Master Gunner, he will have been responsible for the proficiency of guns' crews and for the maintenance of the ship's firearms, including small arms and for the stores required"
"purpose exercises a mysterious spell on Ishmael: ""Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine"". Instead of rounding Cape Horn, Ahab heads for the equatorial Pacific Ocean via southern Africa. One afternoon, as Ishmael and Queequeg are weaving a mat — ""its warp seemed necessity, his hand free will, and Queequeg's sword chance"" — Tashtego sights a sperm whale. Five previously unknown men appear on deck and are revealed to be a special crew selected by Ahab. Their leader, Fedallah, a Parsee, is Ahab's harpooneer. The pursuit is unsuccessful. Southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, the ""Pequod"" makes the first of nine"
"William T. Shorey William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab. He was born in Barbados July 13, 1859 and spent his life at sea. He became the only black captain operating on the west coast of the United States in the late-1880s and 1890s. He obtained his certification in 1885. His whaling voyages were based out of San Francisco on the whaling bark ""John and Winthrop."" The ""John and Winthrop"" was the only whaling ship in the world to be manned"
"for the opera), who is a loner and newcomer to whaling. Dawn breaks and the call is made for ""All Hands!"" The crew raises the ship's sails. Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask talk about Ahab, whom no one has seen since the Pequod left Nantucket. After the crew sings of whales, wealth and home, Captain Ahab suddenly appears. He tells them of Moby Dick, the white whale that took off one of his legs. He then nails a gold doubloon to the mast and promises it to the man who first sights Moby Dick. Ahab explains that the real reason for"
"sea-encounters, or ""gams"", with other ships: Ahab hails the ""Goney"" (Albatross) to ask whether they have seen the White Whale, but the trumpet through which her captain tries to speak falls into the sea before he can answer. Ishmael explains that because of Ahab's absorption with Moby Dick, he sails on without the customary ""gam"", which defines as a ""social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships"", in which the two captains remain on one ship and the chief mates on the other. In the second gam off the Cape of Good Hope, with the ""Town-Ho"", a Nantucket whaler, the concealed"
"to supply them with powder, shot and ancillary equipment, as well as advising his superiors on gunnery matters, and supervising the training and firing of the guns. Master Gunner Job Hartop Job Hartop was an English adventurer who enlisted as chief gunner on John Hawkins' third voyage to the Caribbean. He became stranded and was captured by the Spanish authorities after the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1568) and used as a galley slave. A ship in which he was serving was subsequently captured, and he returned to England. As chief gunner, which would more normally be expressed as"
"entirely by an African-American crew. Shorey retired from whaling in 1908 and lived in Oakland until his death from the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. WIlliam T. Shorey was of African descent through Barbados. William T. Shorey William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab. He was born in Barbados July 13, 1859 and spent his life at sea. He became the only black captain operating on the west coast of the"
"respectively—and substitutes a happy ending for Melville's original tragic one. Some of the characters in the film do not appear in Melville's original novel. At the beginning of the story, Ahab (John Barrymore) and his half brother Derek (George O'Hara) compete for the affections of a winsome minister's daughter, Esther Wiscasset (Dolores Costello). Meanwhile, an albino whale has been eluding harpooners, and bears the scars of many failed attacks against him. The animal's fame has reached epic proportions. One day, Ahab and Derek are on the same whaler as the whale heaves into view. Ahab raises his harpoon to kill"
"the ship's affairs to these two."" Peleg served as first mate under Ahab on ""Pequod"" before obtaining his own command, and is responsible for all her whalebone embellishments. The depiction of life aboard the ship was based on Melville's own experiences in whaling (specifically aboard the ""Acushnet"" in the 1840s) and thus can be taken in many ways as representative of mid-19th-century Nantucket whaling. Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"" by American author Herman Melville. ""Pequod"" and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which,"
"search. Twenty-four hours a day, Ahab now stands and walks the deck, while Fedallah shadows him. Suddenly, a sea hawk grabs Ahab's slouched hat and flies off with it. Next, the ""Pequod"", in a ninth and final gam, meets the ""Delight"", badly damaged and with five of her crew left dead by Moby Dick. Her captain shouts that the harpoon which can kill the white whale has yet to be forged, but Ahab flourishes his special lance and once more orders the ship forward. Ahab shares a moment of contemplation with Starbuck. Ahab speaks about his wife and child, calls"
"Vimeo on September 16, 2012 Captain Ahab (band) Captain Ahab was an American electropop duo based in Los Angeles, California. They referred to their DIY take on jumpstyle and electropop music as ""ravesploitation"". The band was made up of producer/vocalist Jonathan Snipes and hype man Jim Merson. They were known for their provocative lyrics and high-energy shows where a sweaty, half-dressed Merson would descend into the crowd to dance and grind on audience members. In June 2006, Captain Ahab won a contest to have their song ""Snakes on the Brain"" included on the enhanced CD portion of the soundtrack to"
"""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. Born April 7, Ahab was named by his insane, widowed mother, who died when he was twelve months old. At 18 years old, Ahab first took to sea as a boy-harpooner. Less than three"
"line of his own harpoon, Ahab falls overboard and drowns as the whale dives and takes him along. Peleg refers to Ahab respectfully as a ""grand, ungodly, god-like man"" but he is also nicknamed ""Old Thunder"". According to Leon Howard, ""Ahab is a Shakespearean tragic hero, created according to the Coleridgean formula."" The creation of Ahab, who apparently does not derive from any captain Melville sailed under, was heavily influenced by the observation in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on ""Hamlet"" that ""one of Shakespeare's modes of creating characters is to conceive any one intellectual or moral faculty in ""morbid"" excess,"
"Captain Ahab worships pagan gods, particularly the spirit of fire. Fedallah the Parsee, his harpooner, is a fire-worshipping Zoroastrian. Fedallah contributes to Ahab's death by forecasting that: These prophesies, accurate as they may be, deceive Ahab, who perceives them to be an assurance of victory. Charles Olson mentions three modes of madness in ""King Lear"", the King's, the Fool's, and Edgar's, allegorized in the book, with Ahab taking the role of Lear and Pip the roles of both the Fool and Edgar. Melville makes his points by way of contrasts to Shakespeare. Olson identifies the typhoon in chapter 119, ""The"
"morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler ""Pequod"", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the ""Rachel"". The name Ishmael is"
"the whale with guns and Ahab's harpoon. Moby Dick destroys two of the boats and forces the survivors onto the island's shores. The whale attacks them again, resulting in the death of Queequeg (Michael Teh). Ahab takes the last boat and fires his harpoon at the whale's other eye. Moby Dick destroys the boat, killing Ahab. The remaining crew of the ""Pequod"", including Starbuck, and Pip, follow Ahab's orders and fire nukes at the island. Moby Dick dodges the nukes and crushes the ""Pequod"" just as the island explodes. The White Whale survives to wreak havoc another day; Michelle swims"
"of an emptiness. The target dives into a trench, but the captain abandons his search in favor of photographing the target. The target attacks the submarine as Ahab hears a roar. The sub is brought to the icy surface, and the target identifies itself as a gigantic, white, whale-like creature. Ahab survives, but loses his left leg to the beast when it hauls the other half of the sub back underwater. In the present day, Dr. Michelle Herman (O'Connor) and her assistant Pip (Derrick Scott) test a whale song generator when the USS ""Pequod"" surfaces behind them and Lieutenant Commander"
"to inaugurate its re-opening. Impressed by an audio tape sent him by Longden, Mackintosh offered him £25,000 to stage what was then called ""Moby Dick: A Whale of a Tale"". Originally an intimate piece with a cast of twelve performing with an upright piano, it became a greatly expanded version featuring a troupe of thirty and a six-piece band. The end result was a madcap romp, with veteran cabaret star Tony Monopoly playing the headmistress/Captain Ahab in drag, that immediately developed a cult following among the university students. One of its first venues was aboard Ki Longfellow's Old Profanity Showboat"
"next gams with the ""Jungfrau"" from Bremen. Both ships sight whales simultaneously, with the ""Pequod"" winning the contest. The three harpooneers dart their harpoons, and Flask delivers the mortal strike with a lance. The carcass sinks, and Queequeg barely manages to escape. The ""Pequod""s next gam is with the French whaler ""Bouton de Rose"", whose crew is ignorant of the ambergris in the gut of the diseased whale in their possession. Stubb talks them out of it, but Ahab orders him away. Days later, an encounter with a harpooned whale prompts Pip, a little black cabin-boy from Alabama, to jump"
"its production in November 2015. Dallas Opera revived the original production in November 2016. For their January 2018 performance, Utah Opera built a set and created costumes to make the opera more accessible to regional opera companies with constrained budgets. Unlike the earlier productions, the set is designed so that it can be adjusted to many different venues. ""Scenes 1-4. Day One: The whaling ship ""Pequod"" has been at sea for one week."" Captain Ahab is alone on deck before dawn. Below deck, most of the crew is sleeping. The harpooneer Queequeg prays and wakes Greenhorn (the novel's Ishmael, renamed"
"of the elusive Right whale. Svend Foyn was a businessman who patented the grenade-harpoon gun which was to be used for whaling. The ship provided by Svend Foyn was the ""Antarctic"", a three masts barque equipped with a steam engine. It was also equipped with eleven harpoon guns, an arsenal of explosives, eight whaleboats and a thirty-one man crew. The ship was captained by Leonard Kristensen (1857-1911). The crew included Carsten Borchgrevink, who later lead the Southern Cross Expedition to Antarctica. Over the course of the two-year expedition, they visited Tristan da Cunha, the Prince Edward Islands, Îles Crozet, Îles"
"Ahab's story: Captain Ahab, too, lives in an ivory house, 'the ivory ""Pequod""' as it is often called, tricked out in trophies of whale bones and teeth from profitable voyages."" The ship's last voyage, however, is not entirely commercial: from the moment Ahab attaches the golden doubloon on the mast, it becomes a pursuit of a perceived enemy, under a captain unable to compromise. King Ahab, an able politician but a patron of foreign gods, offended Jehovah by introducing Baal as a god. Jehovah tolerated no other gods and contrived with false prophets to destroy King Ahab. Like his namesake,"
"whalebone for a prosthesis. Neither sick nor well, Ahab keeps close inside the house. Ahab is 58 years old at the time of ""Pequod""s last voyage. Peleg and Bildad pilot the ship out of the harbor, and Ahab first appears on deck when the ship is already at sea. Instead of embarking on a regular whaling voyage, Ahab declares he is out for revenge and nails a doubloon on the mast by way of reward for the crewmember who first sights Moby Dick, the white whale. When Moby Dick is eventually sighted, a disastrous three-day chase begins. Entangled by the"
"Captain Ahab (band) Captain Ahab was an American electropop duo based in Los Angeles, California. They referred to their DIY take on jumpstyle and electropop music as ""ravesploitation"". The band was made up of producer/vocalist Jonathan Snipes and hype man Jim Merson. They were known for their provocative lyrics and high-energy shows where a sweaty, half-dressed Merson would descend into the crowd to dance and grind on audience members. In June 2006, Captain Ahab won a contest to have their song ""Snakes on the Brain"" included on the enhanced CD portion of the soundtrack to the film ""Snakes on a"
"the spotlight switched from Ahab to Ishmael. The first two film adaptations show ""the radical surgery that Hollywood performed on Herman Melville's masterpiece."" The first was a silent movie, ""The Sea Beast"", a romantic love story in which the character of Ahab (John Barrymore), is transformed into ""a handsome young sailor"" a New Bedford harpooner who has little in common with Ahab, not even his full name, which is extended to Ahab Ceeley. Though in the book Ahab has already lost his leg, in the film a ""crude papier mache monster"" bites it off. When the movie opened on Broadway"
"George Pollard Jr. George Pollard Jr. (1791–1870) was the captain of the whalers ""Essex"" and ""Two Brothers"", both of which sank. Pollard's life, including his encounter with the sperm whale that sank ""Essex"", served as inspiration for Captain Ahab, the whale-obsessed character in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"". George Pollard was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son of Tamar (Bunker) and George Pollard, a ship's captain, at a time when the principal industry there was hunting sperm whales to harvest the oil contained in their blubber and spermaceti. By the time he was 23 he had served on the ""Essex"" for four"
"pure-blooded Indian from Gay Head, and the third mate is Flask, also from Martha's Vineyard, short, stout, whose harpooneer is Daggoo, a tall African, now a resident of Nantucket. When Ahab finally appears on the quarterdeck, he announces he is out for revenge on the white whale which took one leg from the knee down and left him with a prosthesis fashioned from a whale's jawbone. Ahab will give the first man to sight Moby Dick a doubloon, a gold coin, which he nails to the mast. Starbuck objects that he has not come for vengeance but for profit. Ahab's"
"Starbuck (Grimes), the executive officer, persuades them to come aboard. In the sub, Starbuck tells them about several attacks in which eyewitnesses all report seeing an enormous whale. Although Michelle explains that the whale song generator needs a recorded whale vocalization, Captain Ahab (Bostwick) comes to the deck and gives her the recording he took of Moby Dick back in 1969. Although Michelle disagrees on joining a Navy sub with the intent of killing an animal, she has no choice. In San Diego, Captain Boomer (another survivor of the attack of '69) is told by his superiors of suspicious activity"
"In 1863, Foyn contracted the building of his first whaling ship—a steam powered ship (also with sails) that had seven whaling cannons—the ""Spes et Fides"" (Hope and Faith). The ship was also fitted with check boards to increase the drag on harpooned whales. He also incorporated a 'compensator' or 'accumulator' from the Roys system—a series of rollers and springs installed below deck—to help the thick whale line, attached to the harpoon, to take up some of the shock without breaking. Svend Foyn, after years of experiments and expeditions, patented the modern whaling harpoon in 1870, and his basic design is"