When this character is first seen in a chapter named for him, the narrator notes the white scar on his left cheek that looks "like lightning," leading the narrator to note that this character has a "crucifixion on his face.
When this character is first seen in a chapter named for him, the narrator notes the white scar on his left cheek that looks "like lightning," leading the narrator to note that this character has a "crucifixion on his face." Soon after, Stubb tells Flask that he had a dream of being kicked by this man, and in the dream a merman told him this is an honor. The leader of this man's "five dusky phantoms," Fedallah, prophecies that he will see two hearses before he dies, and that only hemp can kill him, a prophecy which comes true when he is dragged into the ocean tied by a harpoon rope to his nemesis. FTP name this captain of the Pequod whose leg and life were taken by Moby Dick.
When this character is first seen in a chapter named for him, the narrator notes the white scar on his left cheek that looks "like lightning," leading the narrator to note that this character has a "crucifixion on his face.
{Ahab}