In "Moby Dic", as the ship is sinking, we see a crew member frantically nailing Ahab's flag to the mast. This detail exemplifies
the larger theme of: Question 11 options: nature's essential evil. the supremacy of American culture. America's loss of innocence. the futility of human efforts to dominate nature.
This detail exemplifies the larger theme of the futility of human efforts to dominate nature. The entire novel revolves around that theme - whether Ahab as a human is capable of dominating Moby Dic, which is a whale and thus a representative of nature. Nature seems to be winning constantly and humans are ultimately unable to conquer it because nature is unconquerable. <span />
it all depends on what the person interpretes as moral or acceptable, but for example, this has to do with religion, emotions and many other aspects in life
They were also against allowing new states to join the United States as slave states. Some people were opposed to slavery for moral reasons, and they formed a movement formed in the North called abolitionism. The movement called for the legal end to slavery in all of the United States.