But instead he abdicates responsibility for his actions by invoking fate as the force that drives him on: the ship will not turn for home. The Ahab that wins out, then, is the Ahab of the night described in The Candles, when he waves a burning harpoon above the heads of his crew. The setting is Lear-like. On the contrary, this night Ahab uncovers his whole hate. In love with his hatred, he is the most dangerous kind of leader. The kind who, when he falls, takes the whole ship down with him.
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A prosthesis replaces it, fashioned from another sperm whale's jaw. The man is thus part whale himself, part lightning bolt; he feels a thunderous electricity within himself. If Ahab is mad, he is madness personified, a huge man, larger than life, legendary, god-like.
Ahab is a man of great depth but few words. When he speaks, others listen because he moves them with charismatic persuasion. In the pivotal Chapter 36, Ahab finally gathers the crewmen together and, in a rousing speech, solicits their support in a single purpose for this voyage: hunting down and killing the White Whale.
He first unifies the group by asking a series of emotionally charged questions that call for collective responses: What do you do when you spot a whale? What do you do next? What tune do you pull to in pursuit? The men are increasingly excited, as if they are in the blood lust of a real hunt. Ahab then employs his prop, a Spanish gold ounce, offering it to the lookout who first sees "raises" the White Whale.
The end of Ahab's oration unites all of the crewmen except for Starbuck in the monomaniacal goal of pursuing Moby Dick. Ahab's quest is grand, ungodly, and god-like. Starbuck accuses the captain of blasphemy for seeking revenge against a "dumb brute. For Ahab, blasphemy is no vice.
He would "strike the sun if it insulted me. To him, Moby Dick is not just some dumb brute. Ahab is certain that the force is evil. Others find the evil in Ahab's ego, in his own soul. To understand Ahab, we must understand that it is this force behind the mask that Ahab really wants to kill. Ahab believes that the force wants to injure him, to limit his role in the world. Perhaps he is right.
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