Read the excerpt from Chapter 41 of Moby-(bad word brainly wont let me use). The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac i
ncarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. What theme of the novel does this excerpt best address? nature’s indifference to man
man’s indifference to nature
the self-destructive nature of obsession
the personal empowerment that comes from obsession
The theme of the novel that this excerpt best addresses is the self-destructive nature of obsession. The narrator uses the White Whale as a symbol for every obsession that drives a man forward while, at the same time, it destroys him from within. This destruction is apparent in the fact that this man is living with "half a heart and half a lung" because the obsession has eaten the rest.
