Discuss Melville's symbolism in Moby-Dick

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Discuss Melville's symbolism in Moby-Dick
【正确答案】:A.Different people on the ship are representation of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups;
B.facts become symbols and incidents acquire universal meanings;
C.the Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth;
D.The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville; for Ahab, it represeats only evil;for the author, the readers and the narrator, it is still a mystery.