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National Endowment for the Humanities

Dramatic Perspective in Moby Dick

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A instructional activity on Herman Melville's Moby Dick asks readers to compare the first person point of view of Ishmael in Chapter 1 to Captain Ahab's dramatic monologue in Chapter 37. Readers cite evidence from the chapters to support...