<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>
