Moby-Dick Big Read - Chat discussion

Moby-Dick Big Read
Chapter 38, Read by Jeff Lawson
Artist: Deborah Robinson
http://www.mobydickbigread.com/chapte...
Blog: http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2012/10/...

As with the previous chapter, Melville leads off once again with stage directions as he sets us up for the soliloquy that follows replete with the reactions to the drama that unfolded on the quarterdeck from Ahab and now Starbuck. Surely the drama is unfolding as the two men brood upon the course now set. Who else will join this heavy chorus?

More Shakespearean influence... We've had 2 or 3 chapters with stage settings and soliloquies. I agree Vikk, we are building up to a real drama.

Yeah, you can almost feel the Tsunami coming.

I need to go back into the forward that is in both of the editions I have and see what is made of this drama section. I have read that one reason Moby-Dick is so influential and, perhaps, so misunderstood early on is because of the Melville's use of so many different dramatic formats and techniques.

From the little bit I've read, it's pretty clear that Melville completely changed the way he was writing Moby-Dick after his meeting with Hawthorne. Before he was simply writing another sea adventure, afterwards his eye gazed upon the Great American novel. What interested me, as a writer, is that he apparently didn't go back and completely rewrite the novel but simply started adding in. :)

I'm finally catching up on my blog reading and I knew it was interesting that thing about the hyphen in Moby-Dick or the non hyphen...

http://patell.org/2012/10/moby-dick-a...

Why didn't I ever have a teacher like prof. Patell?

Hayes wrote: "I'm finally catching up on my blog reading and I knew it was interesting that thing about the hyphen in Moby-Dick or the non hyphen...

http://patell.org/2012/10/moby-dick-a...

W..."

Well, that probably explains the confusion. :)

Vikk wrote: "Hayes wrote: "I'm finally catching up on my blog reading and I knew it was interesting that thing about the hyphen in Moby-Dick or the non hyphen...

http://patell.org/2012/10/moby-dick-a......"

Am reading Moby Dick for the first time. Completely loving it. But I keep finding false paths to web pages that are not there... mirages on the water, plaguing my mind! This one you mentioned was one of them.

Hayes wrote: "I'm finally catching up on my blog reading and I knew it was interesting that thing about the hyphen in Moby-Dick or the non hyphen...

http://patell.org/2012/10/moby-dick-a...

W..."