Question: Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Di ck. It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw. How is the fact that Ahab’s leg is made from whale bone significant to the novel’s theme of man versus nature?
Answer: It signifies that Ahab has pitted himself against nature in an effort to dominate it.
Explanation: he wants people to know what he does for a living and loves fishing for whales even if it kills him so he painted his prostetic leg
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What is dismal about the hypothetical happenings Juliet
imagines in Act IV, Scene III, is that they are all quite morbidly pessimistic. She imagines that the potion could be
poison. She wonders if she’ll suffocate
in the tomb before she awakens and before Romeo comes for her. She wonders what it would be like to awaken in
the tomb before Romeo comes to her and where Tybalt is decomposing and wonders
if there will be ghosts. And, the last
hypothetical situation she ponders is whether or not she’ll go crazy in the
tomb, pull Tybalt’s corpse out of the burial garb and beat her brains out with a
relative’s bone. In addition to being
pessimistic, this is all quite dismal.
A. Create a dominant mood
Melodrama is a sentimental drama with stereotypical characters. It is a dramatic piece wherein its plot is focused more on the sensationalization of events to invoke emotional response from the audience, and its characters are pegged into a certain type where they project exaggerated emotions; however, the characters are not given the chance to evolve throughout its duration.
Didacticism is a term that refers to a particular philosophy in art and literature that emphasizes the idea that different forms of art and literature ought to convey information and instructions, along with pleasure and entertainment. ... However, some literary texts are entertaining as well as didactic.
