1. What is the significance of the cannibalistic description of the Pequod on page 70?
"She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor...A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that" (70).
2. What is the significance of Captains Peleg and Bildad being both Quakers and captains of a whaling ship? How do they find a balance between these two contradictory ways of life?
3. What kind of role does religion play in Ishmael's life compared to Queequeg?
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