<span>The selection from Melville’s novel MobyDick portrays nature as _____.
The correct answer is: </span>powerful and mysterious
The novel centers on man's multi-faceted interaction with nature, whether by trying to control or tame it; understand it; profit from it; or, in Ahab<span>’s case, defeat it. The book implies that nature, much like the </span>whale<span>, is an impersonal and inscrutable phenomenon. Man tends to treat nature as an entity with motives or emotions, when in fact nature is ultimately indifferent to man.</span>
"We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs."
""We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones."
