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 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