Do Essex ao Pequod: fato, ficção e simbologia em Moby Dick

• Main Author: Macedo, Letícia Carolina da Silveira
• Other Authors: Cabreira, Regina Helena Urias
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná 2014
• Subjects: Mitologia; Simbolismo na literatura; Romantismo - História; Mythology; Symbolism in literature; Romanticism - History; Licenciatura em Letras; Cachalote; Sob’; Chevalier; Ahab; Captain Ahab; cachalote; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/9011

The purpose of this paper is a mythological analysis of the symbols presented in the North-American novel Moby Dick or The Whale (1851), by Herman Melville, mainly those symbols that highlight the relation between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. Before the analysis itself, it is intended to explore the...