Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

"The whale dismasted me," Ahab tells his crew. "(It was Moby Dick) that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye! And I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round ...

Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod to their deaths to kill the infamous whale. Tousled at sea while bumbling around the waves completely ...

When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the ...