Essay --

Herman Melville, one of the more notable names in Gothic writing, saw the world in an unexpected way. Liberated from the Puritan talk, Melville especially appreciated the joys of the common world. Melville voyaged, and invested energy among Natives. In a few records he depicted his ideal time among them, and displayed the possibility of respectable savages past the fringes of America. Without such disaster to fuel him, Melville wrote hopeful accounts of experience and energy. The world wasn't a snare or a test, yet a rich pearl clam to be sought after and celebrated. Genuine acclaim, or if nothing else heritage, came later, with the production of Moby-Dick. A darker story, yet at the same time overwhelming with experience, Moby-Dick was without a doubt an account of disaster. Ahab, the notorious commander in the story, was driven by a fixation to chase down a whale that harmed him years before the story's start. Instead of tolerating this as nature being somewhat risky Ahab, against the better judgment of different individuals from his team, anthropomorphised the main whale, considering it to be a somebody, not something, that wronged him and des...