Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dic k. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. Which of the novel's themes is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Di c k?

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Branden Hawkins

5 February, 11:21

Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dic k. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. Which of the novel's themes is best developed in this excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Di c k?

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Emmanuel Thornton · Answer 1

In the above excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Di c k the novel's themes which are best developed is man's inability to alter fate.

One of the important theme in the novel "Moby Di c k" is about the relationship between nature and man. The novel is about a man, Ahab, who goes out in the natural world to disturb the balance of nature by killing the animals. Though at the end of the novel, it is the nature who remains unchanged and the man has to witness a failure.