Moby Dick, written by the romantic writer Herman Melville, is regarded as "one of the ten greatest novels in the 20th century" by Somerset Maugham. This novel contains many themes which have great influence on the young generation. This thesis begins from Ahab' s desperate desire for revenge and the analysis of the development of the American Whaling industry, uncovering the ecological revelation in bloody whaling industry= the relationship between man and nature. Besides, it also shows the acute meaning of Moby Dick.. the importance of the balanced relation between man and nature
Herman MelvilleMoby Dickecocriticismfrom imbalance to balance