Hannah Robinson and Alyssa Berger Meaning of boat names
Through Moby Dick the different boat names that appear tend to reference to biblical stories or people. Two of the boat names that were most biblical were Rachel and Jeroboam.
Rachel's story in the bible consists of the immense love between Jacob and herself. Jacob binds himself to work for Laban, Rachel's father in order to marry her, however Jacob gets tricked in to marrying Rachel' sister, Leah. As a compromise for Jacob to be able to eventually marry Rachel, Jacob vogues to Laban that he will work another 7 years. Rachel however is unable to bare chidren for her husband. The Rachel in Moby Dick comes upon the Peqod to request help in searching for Rachel's captain's son, who has been lost at sea. Ahab however refuses the request and states that they must sail onward to find the "great white" whale. These names are related in the way both are searching and longing for children. Rachel in the Bible cannot find a way to produce children, the Rachel also cannot find one of its own children.
Jeroboam as a young adult, rebelled from his father and fleed to Egypt. In Egypt support for Jeroboam built up and he was crowned king over Solomon's son. Jeroboam was the first king of the ten tribes of Israel. Jeroboam the ship in the novel of Moby Dick falls prey to a mutiny by shakers. The particular shaker, Gabriel who believes he is the arch angel, prophesizes to the people and "mesmorizes" all the crew except the captain. The captain wants to abandon the prophet, Gabriel, at the next poor; but the crew says if the Captain does that they will mutiny. Gabriel to the crewmen is like Jeroboam to the people of Egypt.
Hannah Robinson and Alyssa Berger
Sources: http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p90.htm
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/moby/charlist.html
http://bible.gen.nz/amos/people/jerobo1.htm
posted by NCHS AP English Language III @ 9:02 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home