[SteeMagazin]^Storytime >> Moby Dick - The sea as source of metaphisical
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<html><div style="background-color:grey;border:dotted;"><div style="margin:5px;text-align:center;font-family:times new roman;color:white;"> Hey everyone, today I'm going to give a few thoughts on one of my favorite books - Herman Melville's Moby Dick.</div></div>  <div style="background-color:grey;border:solid;"><div style="margin:5px;text-align:center;font-family:times new roman;color:white;"> A lot of people struggle with reading Moby Dick and in the end give up because they could not handle most of it chapters, because it was not what they have expected. Exactly that is what makes this book so powerful and unique, Moby Dick is not a book about "some big whale", it is about "some big whale" being reason to examine oneself and engage in more philosophical or metaphisical lifestyle. It is also about the tasks life puts before us. About how being at sea does not mean watching beautiful sunsets, but rather struggling to survive, to eat, to not be taken by the sea. It is about how our destiny is sometimes inevitable. As Melville describes whale hunter's way of life he sets before us a decision. We either feel the pain the sailors experience in their daily routine, both phisically and spiritually, far from everyone doing rough work and waiting their days to be counted at the sea, when their hands and mind will serve them no more, or we feel the pain of the animals being brutally killed just to become wax and oil. The compassion we feel regarding the whale is thus bigger when we think of their innocence, of how their task is merely to live their lives up to the end, how they lose anyway. That's why Melville introduces Moby Dick, a fearsome whale who knows only revenge and makes us doubt again the previous question, makes us doubt the reality and makes us choose between madness and reason. If we choose reason everything loses its point. We are unable to be just mad enough to find our own Moby Dick and chase it our whole life, then again if choose madness there is no going back, we again face our own Moby Dick. Looks like the only way through life is to get passionate about something you are sure you want to achieve, even at stakes of losing everything. This is what I think Melville's message is.</div></div></html> >Link to the picture: https://www.kobo.com/ww/tr/ebook/moby-dick-339 >Written by: @tinmar HTML design: @sulepower >Steemagazin team: @atimk23, @sulepower, @kalu24, @kekec, @strictlybusiness >This is @steemagazin original content.
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