Abstract
THE IMAGERY OF ANIMALS IN HERMAN MELVILLE’S MOBYDICK
Animal imagery is a common literary device used by writers in the late nineteenth century English literature to convey various themes so as to create allegorical writing. Recently, the variety of critical comments and viewpoints on animals and non-human creatures have been seen prolifically in fiction. Herman Melville, an American novelist and critic, has given a material turn and gone beyond traditional investigations. The paper is searched to point out how the representation of animals in fiction stands for human modern life and how the characters in Moby-Dick seem to cross the boundaries of human-nonhuman creatures. The paper tries to answer the questions: Is there harmony relations between man and nature? Should man accepts God’s justice throughout his life? The aim of the paper is to work between possibilities and impossibilities; human and nonhuman species in nature.
Keywords
Imagery, Animals, Novel, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville.
