Tale of the Whale

• Main Author: Schlaudt, Joel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars Crossing 2015
• Subjects: Moby Dick; Herman Melville; whale; Calvinism; critique; American Literature; Literature in English; North America; Other Classics; Ahab; Deacon; White whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lujal/vol1/iss1/5; https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=lujal

In his critique of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, A.N. Deacon accurately captures one of the main tenets if not the central theme of the book; however, he also makes several claims about the novel that do not seem to fit with the evidence seen in the actual story. For example, Deacon holds that Melvil...