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1、AbstractMob-dickisregardedasthemasterpieceofHermanMelville.Itcontainsplentyofsymbolism.Understandingthesymbolicmeaningofthecharactersandsubjectsinthenovelisimportant.Thispaperanalysesthesymbolicmeaningsofdifferentindividualsinordertomakeabetterunderstandingofthenovel.MobyDickrepresentsGodow
2、ingtohisgodlikecharactersandhisawfullyseverebeauty.Ahabsymbolizestheleaguehumanwithevil.Inthewhalingtrip,wecanseehisbraveryandpatience,aswellashismadnessandstubbornness.Thethirdsymbolicelementistheideaofthe“counterpane”thatiswoventhroughoutthestoryasasymboloftheworld`smulticulturalism.Melvi
3、lledevelopsthesymbolprovingthattheworldisindeedacounterpaneofdiversecultures,races.andenvironment,inwhichwearealwaysconnectedbyourhumanity.Keywords:symbolism;MobyDick;Arab;counterpane摘要《白鯨》被看作是赫爾曼·麥爾維爾的杰作。它包含了大量的象征主義。在這部小說中，理解人物事物的象征意義是非常重要的。為了更好的理解這部小說，這篇論文將分析不同個體的象征意義。其中的白鯨被描述寫成無處不在，無所不能的
4、萬能上帝。埃哈布船長為復(fù)仇遠涉重洋捕捉白鯨，最后自己，同伴與白鯨同歸于盡的事跡，既表現(xiàn)了人類的勇敢與忍耐，也反映了他們的偏執(zhí)與瘋狂。另一個貫穿全文的象征就是“床單”，它象征世界不同文化的混合與交織，世界就像一塊由多種布拼湊而成的床單，由不同的文化、種族、背景交織而成，人們在一起相互依靠，相互依存，小說中來自不同國家的船員就是最生動形象的體現(xiàn)。關(guān)鍵詞：象征意義；白鯨；埃哈布；床單Introduction1851,HermanMelvillehadhisnovelMobyDickpublished,whichwasnotastiratthattime.However,ahalfc
5、enturylater,in1920s,thisbookhasbeenrecognizedasoneofthemostsignificantworksinAmericanliterature.Moby-DickisregardedasthefirstAmericanproseepic.Itisanaturalisticstoryofwhale-hunting.ThestorytellsthatacaptainnamedAhabledhiscrewstohuntawhitewhalewhoshearedoffhislegonapreviousvoyage.Finallyallp
6、eopleonboarddrown,exceptIshmael,whosurvivestotellthestory.Moby-dickissopopularnotonlybecauseoftheexcitingwhale-huntingscenesandexplorationoftheinternalworldofhumanbeings,butalsotheskillfuluseofsymbolism.Whatdoesmakehimbecomeamaterofsymbolism?Itrelatestohislifeexperienceandculturebackground.
7、HermanMelvillebeganworkingonhisepicnovelMobyDickin1850,writingitprimarilyasareportonthewhalingvoyagesheundertookinthe1830sandearly1840s,Manycriticsthinkthathisinitialbookdidn`tcontaincharacterssuchasAhab,Starbuck,orevenMobyDick,butthesummerof1850changedM
