《白鲸》的英文简介？
INTRODUCTION:
I shmael, the narrator, announces his intent to ship aboard a whaling vessel. He has made several voyages as a sailor but none as a whaler. He travels to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he stays in a whalers’ inn. Since the inn is rather full, he has to share a bed with a harpooner from the South Pacific named Queequeg. At first repulsed by Queequeg’s strange habits and shocking appearance (Queequeg is covered with tattoos), Ishmael eventually comes to appreciate the man’s generosity and kind spirit, and the two decide to seek work on a whaling vessel together. They take a ferry to Nantucket, the traditional capital of the whaling industry. There they secure berths on the Pequod, a savage-looking ship adorned with the bones and teeth of sperm whales. Peleg and Bildad, the Pequod’s Quaker owners, drive a hard bargain in terms of salary. They also mention the ship’s mysterious captain, Ahab, who is still recovering from losing his leg in an encounter with a sperm whale on his last voyage.
The Pequod leaves Nantucket on a cold Christmas Day with a crew made up of men from many different countries and races. Soon the ship is in warmer waters, and Ahab makes his first appearance on deck, balancing gingerly on his false leg, which is made from a sperm whale’s jaw. He announces his desire to pursue and kill Moby Dick, the legendary great white whale who took his leg, because he sees this whale as the embodiment of evil. Ahab nails a gold doubloon to the mast and declares that it will be the prize for the first man to sight the whale. As the Pequod sails toward the southern tip of Africa, whales are sighted and unsuccessfully hunted. During the hunt, a group of men, none of whom anyone on the ship’s crew has seen before on the voyage, emerges from the hold. The men’s leader is an exotic-looking man named Fedallah. These men constitute Ahab’s private harpoon crew, smuggled aboard in defiance of Bildad and Peleg. Ahab hopes that their skills and Fedallah’s prophetic abilities will help him in his hunt for Moby Dick.
The Pequod rounds Africa and enters the Indian Ocean. A few whales are successfully caught and processed for their oil. From time to time, the ship encounters other whaling vessels. Ahab always demands information about Moby Dick from their captains. One of the ships, the Jeroboam, carries Gabriel, a crazed prophet who predicts doom for anyone who threatens Moby Dick. His predictions seem to carry some weight, as those aboard his ship who have hunted the whale have met disaster. While trying to drain the oil from the head of a captured sperm whale, Tashtego, one of the Pequod’s harpooners, falls into the whale’s voluminous head, which then rips free of the ship and begins to sink. Queequeg saves Tashtego by diving into the ocean and cutting into the slowly sinking head.
During another whale hunt, Pip, the Pequod’s black cabin boy, jumps from a whaleboat and is left behind in the middle of the ocean. He goes insane as the result of the experience and becomes a crazy but prophetic jester for the ship. Soon after, the Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby, a whaling ship whose skipper, Captain Boomer, has lost an arm in an encounter with Moby Dick. The two captains discuss the whale; Boomer, happy simply to have survived his encounter, cannot understand Ahab’s lust for vengeance. Not long after, Queequeg falls ill and has the ship’s carpenter make him a coffin in anticipation of his death. He recovers, however, and the coffin eventually becomes the Pequod’s replacement life buoy.
Ahab orders a harpoon forged in the expectation that he will soon encounter Moby Dick. He baptizes the harpoon with the blood of the Pequod’s three harpooners. The Pequod kills several more whales. Issuing a prophecy about Ahab’s death, Fedallah declares that Ahab will first see two hearses, the second of which will be made only from American wood, and that he will be killed by hemp rope. Ahab interprets these words to mean that he will not die at sea, where there are no hearses and no hangings. A typhoon hits the Pequod, illuminating it with electrical fire. Ahab takes this occurrence as a sign of imminent confrontation and success, but Starbuck, the ship’s first mate, takes it as a bad omen and considers killing Ahab to end the mad quest. After the storm ends, one of the sailors falls from the ship’s masthead and drowns—a grim foreshadowing of what lies ahead.
Ahab’s fervent desire to find and destroy Moby Dick continues to intensify, and the mad Pip is now his constant companion. The Pequod approaches the equator, where Ahab expects to find the great whale. The ship encounters two more whaling ships, the Rachel and the Delight, both of which have recently had fatal encounters with the whale. Ahab finally sights Moby Dick. The harpoon boats are launched, and Moby Dick attacks Ahab’s harpoon boat, destroying it. The next day, Moby Dick is sighted again, and the boats are lowered once more. The whale is harpooned, but Moby Dick again attacks Ahab’s boat. Fedallah, trapped in the harpoon line, is dragged overboard to his death. Starbuck must maneuver the Pequod between Ahab and the angry whale.
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求一篇论白鲸里的象征主义的英语论文
白鲸和美国的帝国主义视野
提 要: 大量文本证据表明,《白鲸》广泛触及了美国帝左差板使经粮速执兰国主义视野的诸多重要维度,具有明显的意识坐从氢形态
倾向。借助后殖民主义理论对欧美“权力中心”的批来自判, 可以说明《白鲸》是众板歌助硫均王预说如何试图建构这一中心, 从而
与美利坚民族的帝国主义想像相辅相成的。将《白鲸》置于帝国主义语境下解读,可以清晰地再现这部美
国文学的典律作品同帝国主义意识形态之间的密切关系。
关键词: 麦尔维尔;《白鲸》; 帝国主义; 后殖民主义
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Abstract :Moby Dick offers considerable textual evidences showing
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post coloni告钱父四宜厂肥显镇随alism can best explain how Moby Dick has made efforts to establish Europe and
America as the metropolis of power ,
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Moby Dick in the imperialistic context will explicitly represent the cl武境资月矿ose connecti善蒸笑妒on
between this canonize情d narrative and the imperialist ideology.
Key words :Melville ; Moby Dick ; imperialism ; post colonialism
在为数众多的关于麦尔维尔的评论中,人哥多们从多种 角度表达了对其代表作《白鲸》的看法,《白鲸》被看作
是神话、诗歌、政治寓言、心理学文献等等。但在这些评论中,很少有人关注《白鲸》在美国帝国主义进程中
的位置。这一点让人颇为不解, 因为正如爱德华·赛义 所说:“帝国主义和小说相得益彰, 甚至一谈小说就
非谈帝国主义不可,反之亦然。”[1 ] (P71) 或许是麦尔维尔所处的时代使人们较少注意到《白
鲸》和帝国主义的关系,因为《白鲸》出版于1851 年, 而 人们通常把1898 年的美西战争作为美国走上帝国主义
道路的标志。其实早在建国之初,美国就继承了萨克逊 民族的帝国主义扩张精神,到了19 世纪中期,这种精神
变得更加狂热: 在西部敞开了大门,1849 年加利福尼亚 又出现淘金热潮,创办《纽约论坛报》的霍勒斯·格里利
的话响在每个人的耳边:“到西部去, 年轻人。”这样的 时代为《白鲸》成为帝国主义文本创造了历史条件,《白
鲸》里“皮廓德号”的航行在一定程度上代表了这种精 神向海外的延伸———美国的捕鲸船横扫七洋, 所向披
靡。从这一历史视角出发, 萨义德写道:“ ⋯⋯在库珀、 克·吐温、麦尔维尔及其他作者的作品中, 想到那种
不寻常的,挥之不去的对美国向西部拓展的关注, ⋯⋯ 这就是说,一种可以与欧洲匹敌的帝国主题已在美国出
现。”[1 ] (P63)
这一独具慧眼的评论的确令人信服, 但还远不足以 说明《白鲸》在美国帝国主义历史中所具有的独特地
位。本文认为,《白鲸》是一部超越其时代的
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