In the masterpiece novel "Moby Dick", Herman Melville, a romantic writer of the 19th century, describes life aboard the whaling ship Pequod and the captain's obsession with finding and seeking revenge on the white whale that once maimed him.
A top classic work of Anglo-Saxon and world literature, an almost philosophical endeavor, through which the purpose of a fictional hero's life symbolizes mankind's struggle against nature, fate, and God himself.
The ship on the ocean becomes a journey of the soul into the unknown, the wild whale an eternal adversary, an unequal battle with the impossible.