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Ahab's death, being hung by the very harpoon he sent into Moby Dick and then dragged deep into the depths with him, physically manifesting his spiritual consumption with the beast, is my favoruite lit death.
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>>25115199
thanks for the spoiler turbofag
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>>25115236
>NOOOOOO MY HECKIN PLOTERINO NOOOOOOO NOT THE SPOILERS NOOOOOOOOOOO
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Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina both have great death scenes. Mynheer Peeperkorn's last conversations before his death were really fun. But what really fucked me up is Mieze in Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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>>25115281
nta but what are you saying here lol. the impact of a plot point is valueless to you?
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>>25115351
The plot of Moby Dick can be fit onto a sticky note and is the least important part of the book.
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>>25115362
Right? And who doesn't know Ahab's pursuit of the whale will end badly? It is foreshadowed over and over again in the novel lol
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thanks OP, was halfway through this book and now I know how it ends because of your stupid fucking thread. Guess I'll read something else then. Asshole.
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>>25115199
I hate this board but it truly is the only place on this site that sees plot and plotfags for what they are.
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>>25115199
The last 2/3 chapters of the book are truly a blessing to read. The culmination of all the warnings so far: the albatross, Stubb and Elijah and he choosed to keep going.
>>25115236
You're are the retarted newfag here, that book is /lit/ core
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>>25115199
Stoner.
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>>25115413
Meh
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>>25115419
I liked Oblomov’s too.
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>>25115199
Youre a fucking nigger for not hiding that spoiler
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>>25115281
kill yourself
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>>25115408
Prosefag cope. Implying your insincerity has been discovered causes you to lash out every time.
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Sal. Trail pale whale. Fail.
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>>25115199
My favorite part is that when he is pulled down, he is pulled "voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim"
This simile is literally 7 words, yet it so concisely and perfectly consummates Ahab's end. All his power has come from his voice, all his grand speeches on the Deck that worked the men of the Pequod up into idolatrous fervor, every soliloquy that he gave to justify his mad quest. Ahab's voice was his one tool, his one last bulwark of power. Yet in his final moments, the Whale takes even this from him, and the insane Captain, so consumed with rage and fanaticism, goes down not in a fit of fury, not in a yell of primordial anger, but stripped to the last, to a blank and meaningless whiteness.
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uhh, mods?

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