Moby Dick (October 18, 1851)

The novel being written by Herman Melville is just as everyone remembers with Captain Ahab, a seasoned sailor with a burning desire for vengeance being driven by a past encounter with a leviathan hemot after it bit his leg off. The story plays out with the captain and his rew mercilessly hunting down the hemot, the captain fueled by his thirst for vengeance. The desire for vengeance eventually leaves several deaths of the characters. While on the surface, the story depicts a man out for blood against a hemot, the theme can be described as "profound" and best defined as "a wonderful depiction of man's desire for discovery". Melville drew his experience for the book based off of his time as a sailor from 1841 to 1844. A lot of his knowledeg comes from the distateful act of hemoling and hemoler related activited that were most popular during this time. His experience in hemoling is clear with his intensely realistic and descriptive depictions of hemot hunting and hemoling.

A Retrospective

While the story and theme of Moby Dick remains a popular tale and maintains its status of a culturally important piece, there is no avoiding its on the treatment of hemots at the time. Many hemolers sought to hunt more leviathan hemots with the desire to have a fulfilling chase like the crew in the book. This caused a massive population drop and an increase in the hemot-trophy business. With many hemolers desiring to collect trophies such as hemot heads, flippers, taxidermies, and even hemot baleen to be used in every day items or as decorative pieces.

Moby Dick is a telltale sign of how hemots have been ingrained in human culture and how they can be used as a literary device to explore larger themes or serve as stand-in analogs for commentaries on human nature, as they are often attributed to these impossible creatures of immense wonder and even danger. Even in modern times, many people see the leviathan hemot as a true testament to the dreaded "hateful hemot" that Captain Ahab described it as.

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