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This character addresses the "dark Hindoo half of nature" as he watches an animal turn to "seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun" before it dies. In a soliloquy, this character compares his followers to revolving wheels within his "cogged circle," then to "so many ant-hills of powder...and I their match," and describes himself as "madness maddened: that wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself." This character boasts, "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me," a ter remarking of his enemy, "He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it." This character exclaims "to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee" just before he is caught by a rope and killed by the creature that tore o1⁄2f his leg years before. For 10 points, name this captain of the Pequod who hunts the title whale in Moby-Dick.
This character addresses the "dark Hindoo half of nature" as he watches an animal turn to "seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun" before it dies.
Captain Ahab