Ahab vs. Starbuck: Moral Conflict

From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Starbuck's protests give voice to the novel's moral and theological objections to Ahab's quest.
Chapter 36 (The Quarter-Deck)

Starbuck: 'Vengeance on a dumb brute!... that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.' Ahab replies that all visible objects are 'pasteboard masks.'

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Chapter 132 (The Symphony)

Ahab's most human moment, weeping with Starbuck about his wife and child, before steeling himself again for the hunt.

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