"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

Moby Dick. The story is told primarily through the thoughts of its narrator, Ishmael, a dreaming sailor aboard Captain Ahab's ship, the Pequod. Not only does the story guide its readers through the ...

Ishmael nonetheless signs on to the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by the brooding, one-legged Ahab (Gregory Peck). In an obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale to whom he lost his ...