In chapter 98, Stowing Down and Clearing Up, Melville depicts how sailors clean up the ship which is contaminated by Whales’oil and blood by using “[t]he unmanufactured sperm oil” which “possesses a singularly cleansing virtue”. (330). In here, which theme does Melville want to express? How does the comparison of cleanness and dirtiness relate to theme capitalism and Industrialism?
“ [T]he image of the rounder globe, which like a magician’s glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious.” (332) In chapter 99, What does Melville attempt to imply when he exposes human being’s material desires through sailors’ reactions toward golden coin?
What does Melville want to tell us when Starbuck says “[n]o fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil’s claw must have left their moulding there since yesterday.(333)” Who is devil here?
“ This coin speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. I will quit it, lest Truth shake me falsely.” (333). Why he “will quit it”, what is the golden coin represent? How does Melville’s consciousness relate to Christianism principle?
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