【正文】 Forty forty forty years ago! ago! Forty years of continual whaling! Forty years of privation, and peril, and stormtime! Forty years on the pitiless sea! For forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep! Aye and yes, Starbuck, out of those forty years I have not spent three ashore. When I think of this life I have led。 fool fool old fool, has old Ahab been! Why this strife of the chase? Why weary. [2] (p761) For Ahab, 40 years’ whaling life had made him feel tired of life and helpless. He could feel the inner loneliness, anxiety, selfdoubt, while all these were a hero39。s eyes, all the crew must take the task of killing Moby Dick as their sacred responsibility, from which we can see that Ahab has imposed his own will on others in order to plete his mission. He regards the lives of the sailors as valueless as grass. From the very beginning, Ahab has pledged, “I?ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition39。 mediocrity could never bee the hero. [6] (p720) During the time when Ahab fights with Moby Dick, he has shown the spirit that he will never give up his mission. No matter what kind of whaling ship he has met, he will inquire about the whereabouts of Moby Dick. He travels all over the world while his only aim is to seek Moby Dick, and then eliminate it at any cost. In the process of killing Moby Dick, Ahab’s goal is clear, his manner is firm and his determination is faithful. In order to achieve his goal, everyday he only lies down on bed for three hours. He always wonders about how to find out Moby Dick. He looks at the chart, observes the sun and studies the route in the captain39。s heroic spirit shows us human’s great faith and noble spirit. Regarding the Selfesteem as Life Before Ahab lost one of his legs, depending on his courageous, quickwitted and tenacious devotion, he had bee a brave and resourceful, resolute captain in a whaling ship, without having to scruple about anything. However, when Moby Dick got away one of his legs, it gave him not merely the physical pain. More importantly, it was the suffering of the spirit and the feeling of the defeat of selfesteem that had hurt Ahab very much. Because of the hatred of losing his leg, it has been very hard for Ahab to raise his head to reexamine himself with selfesteem. Captain Ahab is superior to others. Undoubtedly, to Ahab, the selfesteem is even more important than his own life. Mustai Karim once said: Once a person loses his selfesteem, he would not be a man but a creepy ghost. [8] (p1583) Therefore, Ahab should fight for his selfesteem. Thus he is seized by a fanatical desire for revenge. Whaling is no longer his goal, his real aim is to kill Moby Dick and restore his selfesteem. Just as what Chen Qiuhong writes in The Culture Interpretation of the Symbolic Significance in MobyDick, He has suffered setbacks again and again, but he will never be defeated. The fire of life can be put out, but his selfesteem will never be conquered. [9] (p99) Therefore Ahab pledged that he would go to every place of the world to find Moby Dick out and kill it, in order to eliminate the shame it had brought to him. Zhu Guangqian believes that, in tragedies, the sense of dignity is as important as the idea of fate. If there is no break, no struggle for disasters, there will be no tragedy. So Moby Dick is just like a mag which attracts Ahab’s unwavering resistance. 4 The Performances of Struggle Ahab’ life is unfortunate. During the forty years of whaling life in the sea, he has experienced nearly all kinds of hardshi。d strike the sun if it insults me. [7] (p229) This kind of courage to challenge the god and the fearless spirit of Ahab has made the human beings deeply shocked. From the very beginning to the end, Starbuck never stopped persuading Ahab to give up the goal of attacking the white whale, Even now it is the third day, now it is not too late to give up yet. Ahab understood that he would have to pay a heavy tax for his revenge. However, at this time, it had been impossible for Ahab to abandon this mission. After learning the position of Moby Dick, in spite of all the other people39。 because he could not .And also it is impossible for him to bow to his fate. The only outlet is to try to retrieve his dignity by this kind of crazy revenge. A Brave and Resolute Hero –Ahab Among Ahab’s personalities, he has the side of a paranoid and crazy man, but he is also a brave, strongdetermined hero. However, it is obvious in the novel that, while struggling with fate, Ahab’s really powerless. His revolt will inevitably lead to his and all the crew39。 even the pipe could not lessen any of his pain. It looked as if the artificial limb, which was made by Moby Dick, frequently reminded him that he had been defeated by it. At that time, the concept of ―man can conquer nature‖ was widely accepted by people. Therefore, the loss of the leg caused by Moby Dick was undoubtedly a great shame to Ahab. Thus, revenge inevitably became the only outlet of Ahab’s life and killing Moby Dick had been the only meaning of his life in this world. Any unlucky omens, warnings and plea could not change his determination to kill Moby Dick and prevent him from taking revenge. On the contrary, he became even more determined about his goal. “Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely。 the masoned, walledtown of a Captain39。s Tragedy Psychology to elaborate Ahab39。 it had received numerous critics39。在追捕白鯨的過程中，無論是警告還是預(yù)兆，亞哈都表現(xiàn)出毫不畏懼，這種對(duì)命運(yùn)與神明的抗?fàn)幵谛≌f中淋漓盡致 地 表現(xiàn)出來。 10 論文篇幅 文科 15000字左右，理科 10000字左右