<span>Melville’s description of Ahab’s scar in this excerpt from ''Moby ick'' best develops the theme of: the ruling of man's present by his past wounds. This excerpt clearly shows that the scar that character attained in the past still has an influence on his life. The character feels the presence of the scar as if it was freshly got, and all this descriptive language stands as a metaphor of symbolic meaning of people's scars in their life and fate.<span>
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in spires of the snakes repulsive nature, why do you think God created it?
Like a starving beast, the fire consumed the forest.
There is use of figurative language here indicated by the phrase starving beast. Fire is compared to a starving beast by use of simile.
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