The theme of this book is obviously revenge and its consequences. The captain of the vessel in which the protagonist has embarked on a whaling expedition, Captain Ahab, was once maimed by a white whale, named Moby-Dick, and he has sworn a vendetta against this whale. Throughout the book, Ahab focuses on nothing other than killing this whale. He does not enjoy the successes he and his crew achieve throughout the book because he is blinded by his hatred for the whale. When he and his crew finally sight the whale, he stops at nothing in his attempts to kill it. Moby-Dick eventually destroys the ship killing all of the crew other than the protagonist. Ahab's hatred for this whale eventually cost the lives of him and his entire crew.
This theme really is great. I can not say a word against the ideals of this book, but the ideals are not the problem. The first problem in this book is the language. Sadly, some parts of this book had to be read extremely slowly because the language was just too complicated. This is not a huge issue, and it certainly wouldn't have condemned the book alone, but there was a far bigger issue. This bigger issue was the massive breaks in the storyline in which the author attempted to teach the reader everything he or she could ever need to know about whaling. This information had absolutely nothing to do with the story, and it took up at least half of the book. These gaps were frustrating and nearly pointless. In my opinion, this book was really not worth the time it required to read. I would not recommend this book to anyone who does not have an extremely great interest in whaling and the ocean in general. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to children because I do not expect that most would enjoy so much as a word of it.
Sorry to have to give any classic book a review like this,
Jodath
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