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Moby Dick (whale)
Moby Dick is the fictional white whale for which Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' is titled. Although an integral part of the novel, Moby Dick appears in just the final three of the 135 chapters.
==Description==
Ishmael describes Moby Dick as having prominent white areas around “a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump,” the rest of his body being of stripes and patches between white and gray.〔Ch 41, “The Whale,” Melville, Herman. (1851) ''Moby~Dick or, the Whale'.'〕 The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet〔 Ch 103, “The Measurement of a Whale’s Skeleton,” Melville, Herman. (1851) ''Moby~Dick or, the Whale'' 〕 (larger than any officially recorded sperm whale)〔Ellis, Richard. (2011). ''The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Oceans Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature.'' USA: University Press of Kansas. p. 432.〕 and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived. Ahab tells the crew that the White Whale can be told because it has an unusual spout, a deformed jaw, three punctures in his right fluke and several harpoons embedded in his side from unsuccessful hunts.〔Chapter 36. “The Quarter-Deck,” Melville, Herman. (1851) ''Moby~Dick or, the Whale.'' 〕 Yet Ishmael insists that what invested the whale with “natural terror” was that “unexampled, intelligent malignity” which he had shown in his assaults. When he fled before “exalting pursuers,” giving every symptom of alarm, he would suddenly turn round and stave their boats to splinters or drive them back to their ship. What seemed the White Whale's “infernal aforethought of ferocity” that every dismembering or death that he caused was not wholly regarded as that of an " unintelligent agent." He bit off Ahab's leg, leaving Ahab to swear “wild vindictiveness” on him.〔 Ch 41, “The Whale,” Melville, Herman. (1851) ''Moby~Dick or, the Whale'.' 〕 Ishmael, however, is haunted by a "nameless horror" so "mystical and well nigh ineffable" that he could hardly express: It was "the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."〔 CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale," Melville, Herman. (1851) ''Moby~Dick or, the Whale'.' 〕
At the end of the novel Moby Dick destroys the ''Pequod''. Ahab and the crew are drowned, with the exception of Ishmael. The novel does not say whether Moby Dick survives.
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