Final Project Proposal

The text I have chosen for my final project is Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The tale of Captain Ahab’s quest to kill the white sperm whale Moby Dick is a fall narrative, with Ahab himself as the fallen victim. Major themes such as man against fate help Moby Dick sit side by side with fall narratives such as John Milton's Paradise Lost and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. My presentation will explore Captain Ahab’s fall as an individual and how the world that Herman Melville creates at sea compares to the worlds presented in Milton and Wilde’s works.