1. Was Ishmael homosexual? According to Queequeg's customs, he and Queequeg were married. Also, they continued to share the bed together, and Ishmael even abandoned being a christian. Did he do everything for Queequeg?
2. Queequeg cannot be king because "his interaction with Christianity made him "dirty" and unfit for his "pure" throne. While Ishmael thinks that Queequeg is a savage and is the dirty one, Queequeg's home culture actually contempt Christianity and see it as the unholy one. How is this possible? How is Christianity corrupted?
3. At Nantucket, people are astonished by how intimately Ishmael reacts with Queequeg because one is civilized and the other is barbaric. Interesting, Ishmael is white, and Queequeg is black. Did Melville purposely connected this relationship with whites & blacks in America during the 1800s?
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