【正文】 hich seemed to be a great shame to him. So he pledged that he would spare no effort to take revenge on it. At that time, people believed that man was the master of his own fate. Therefore, Ahab started his crazy revenge in order to save his selfesteem. From then on, this difficult mission had bee the only pursuit of his life. In order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, Ahab began to search the whereabouts of Moby Dick the moment he went out to sea. He tried all kinds of means to find it out. Meanwhile, he made all sailors obey his will by various ways. Ahab realized clearly that he would have to pay a heavy price for this. However, he still made up his mind that he would rather die than live in dishonor. With great courage and dedication, Ahab tried his best to fulfill his mission without hesitation. No matter who begged him to stop, no matter what obstacles he had met on the way, Ahab still insisted on his goal. In the end, all the people were buried into the sea except Ishmael, who narrated the whole story as an experienced person. And Ahab finally found out his own destination of spirit by the way of perishing together with Moby Dick. 3 The Personality of Ahab Many critics have done researches on MobyDick. But they all believe that Ahab is a demon, a crazy man, because they just analyze Ahab from his crazy activity in pursuing Moby Dick, which is only a small part of Ahab. They have ignored Ahab’s inner personality. Ahab is a man who would never bow to fate and takes selfesteem as his life. He believes that a person can be killed, but he can’t lose his selfesteem. This chapter will focus on appreciating Ahab’s personality prehensively. A Lonely and Crazy Hero –Ahab Heroes are always lonely, and Ahab is no exception. He is inpatible with the surrounding world, and always silent and speechless. The brutal reality and the hierarchical system had imprisoned him so firmly in the whaling ship that he could not get out of this narrow space. However, when Moby Dick took away one of his legs, Ahab became even more eccentric because of the kind of physical destruction and mental torture made by it. To take revenge, he made up his mind to leave his only daughter and his wife who had been married to him for ten years. Thus, he started the miserable navigation just as: trying to find a needle in a haystack. During this long voyage, what had brought to him were only the suffering of torment and the endless mental torture. In the bottom of his lonely heart, a kind of helplessness also revealed, which made him feel even worse. In such case, Ahab had to pour out these innermost pains, which had piled up in his heart for so many years. 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。s Tragedy Psychology to elaborate Ahab39。s 100th birth, people began to value this book again. This time, it became the generally acknowledged masterpiece, and was praised as the symbol of the epoch. In 1917, Carl it had received numerous critics39。 關(guān)鍵詞： 自尊 , 抗?fàn)?, 白鯨 , 亞哈 , 英雄悲劇性 Abstract MobyDick (1851) was written in the19th century. It is the masterpiece of the wellknown American romantic novelist Melville. The author narrates the tragic story of Captain Ahab who tries to kill Moby Dick by all kinds of means. This activity has caused the ship to be destroyed and humans perished. Through this novel, we can find that, on the one hand, the leading character Ahab defends his selfesteem and struggles with destiny on the other hand. In the course of pursuing Moby Dick, Ahab never retreats, no matter what sort of unlucky omens or warnings he meets. This kind of resistance to the destiny and the god is performed vividly in the novel. The article integrates Zhu Guangqian’s The Tragedy Psychology together to elaborate the Ahab’s heroic tragedy in three aspects: the leading character39。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。 三、湖南科技學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)）答辯記錄表 論文題目 Selfesteem And Struggle – Appreciating the Tragic Hero Ahab in MobyDick 作者姓名 張建國 所屬系、專業(yè)、 年級(jí) 外國語言文學(xué)系 英語專業(yè) 2020年級(jí) 指導(dǎo)教師 姓名、職稱 潘利鋒教授 答 辯 會(huì) 紀(jì) 要 時(shí)間 2020年 5月 20日 地點(diǎn) 第二教學(xué)樓 202 答 辯 小 組 成 員 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 潘利鋒 教授 盤群 講師 彭長江 教授 陳碧園 講師 胡伶俐 講師 答辯中提出的主要問題及回答的簡要情況記錄： 會(huì)議主持人： 記 錄 人： 年 月 日 答 辯 小 組 意 見 評(píng)語： 評(píng)定等級(jí)： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 年 月 日 系 學(xué) 位 委 員 會(huì) 意 見 評(píng)語： 論文（設(shè)計(jì)）最終評(píng)定等級(jí)： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 系部（公章） 年 月 日 校 學(xué) 位 委 員 會(huì) 意 見 評(píng)語： 評(píng)定等級(jí)： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 年 月 日 Contents 摘要 ………………………………………………………………….. ..Ⅰ Abstract …………………………………………………………… ....Ⅱ 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………… ...1 2. Melville and His MobyDick……………… ..…………………… ....5 Brief Introduction of the Author … …………………………… ...5 Main Content of MobyDick……………………………… .…… 6 3. The Personality of Ahab ………………………………… ..… ........8 A Lonely and Crazy Hero–Ahab …………………………… ......8 Brave and Resolute Hero –Ahab …………………………… ..11 Regarding the Selfesteem as Life …………………………… ...14 Performances of Struggle………………………… ..