American Literary Traditions (Bass)
Moby-Dick Hypertext Projects
Project Titles and Branching Themes

Thematic Clusters:

Religion, Truth, and the Soul
Madness and Monomania
Individuality, Community, and Isolation
Whiteness, Otherness, Difference, and Design
Order, Chaos, and Fear

    Religion, Truth, and the Soul

The Magnitude of Moby Dick
(Tunmore)

*Ahab as Devil
*Nature as God
*White Whale as Jesus
*Crew as Mankind
*Biblical Quotes

Ahab's Body and Soul: Led by Revenge (Catanzano)

*Revenge
*Evil Thirst for Life
*Body and Soul
*Buddhist View

Seeking the Encounter with the Truth (Gohl)

*Encounter of Ahab, Ishamael
*Presentation of Whales
*Sea as Existence
*Melville's Search

A Passionate Soul in Hell (Kombrink)

*Passion Mistaken for Madness
*Passion Breeds Life
*Madness Spreads: the Pequod's Hierarchy
*Industry and Moby-Dick

What is Worship? (Meekins)

*Yahweh
*Inexorable Self, Ahab as God *Yojo, Queequeg's God
*Slavery

Religion, Myth, and Superstition (Schneider)

*Other
*Ignorance
*Suspicion
*Holocaust Denial and the Klan

Seeing Through the Fog in Moby-Dick (Schoellkopf)

*Other Worlds
*Truth and Clairvoyance
*Incompatibility
*Contemporary Criticism

The Awful Edict of God and the Intrepid Effort
of the Soul
(Stone)

*Driven to Madness
*A Reversal of Fortune
*A Branded Man
*The Fountain and the Forge
*The Tragicality of Human Thought

Spirituality and the Role of Religion (Touissant)

*Allegiance to Ahab's Madness *The Christian Influence
*Pagan Frame of References
*Lord of the Flies

Madness and Monomania

The Nature of Madness (Bednarz)

*A Vengeful Monomania
*A Tortured Soul
*A Godless Riot
*Beat Madness

Into the Depth of Madness (Lewis)

*Storms
*Deception and Layers
*Darkness and Light
*Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform--"In Defense of Madness"

The Madness of Captain Ahab (Pidot)

*Monomania
*Ahab's Gloomy Soul/the Question of Religion
*The Blackness of Darkness
*The Sanity of Herman Melville

The Religion of Madness (Weiss)

*Anguish, Morbidness
of Nature

*Tragically Great
*Mortality of the Disease
*Hawthorne, Monomania, and Religion

Individuality, Community, Isolation

The Interdependency of Mankind (Chiu)

*Interdependency
*Individuality
*Free Will
*Unmerited Death

The Whiteness of the Crew (Herlihy)

*Togetherness of Individuals
*Bosom Friends
*Crew of Individuals
*Ahab's Crew

The Desolation of Solitude (Morris)

*The Slavery of Mononmania
*The Walled Town of a Captain's Exclusiveness
*Nourishment of the Soul
*The Story of Jonah

Whiteness, Otherness, Difference,
and Duality

Imperialism: The Underlying Force that Drives Moby Dick (Brennan)

*Religion
*Multiculturalism and
American Superiority
*Superstition
*Robinson Crusoe: Imperialism from a British Aspect

Beauty and Terror: A Duality in Moby-Dick (Brenner)

*The Binary in Whiteness
*The Binary in the Whale
*The Binary in God
*Maya Angelou

The Problem of Whiteness in Moby Dick (Carega)

*The Blackness in Whiteness
*The Whale as Religious Intermediary
*Finding Truth in Contrast
*Fate

"What Evil Magic": Cannibalism in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (D'Angona)

*Queequeg qua Cannibal
*Cannibalism & Slavery
*Ahab, A Hungry Master
*The Politics of Economic Cannibalism

Challenging Traditional Associations of Whiteness (Franklin)

*The Love of Hate
*Humanity's Ethics
*To Be or Not to Be
*White's Evil

Walking on Life and Death (Hill)

*Standing in One Hell
*The Material Counterpart
*Death and Devils
*Return of the Jedi

The Role of Duality in Moby-Dick (Kuhn)

*The Relativity of Meaning
*Danger of Monomania
*Duality and Contrast as a *Vehicle for Questioning
*The Tao of Duality

Difference in Moby-Dick (Patterson)

*The Supernatural
*Whiteness/Blackness
*Divinity/Religion
*Difference in Pudd'nhead Wilson

Order, Chaos, and Fear

The Central Issue of Fear in Moby-Dick (Linakis)

*Fear of the Unknown
*Fear of Savage and
Untamed Beings

*Courage and Bravery
as Opposites of Fear

*The Holocaust as
a Fearful Experience

Calm Amidst the Storm (McMahon)

*The Lasting Calm
*Failed Attempt to Seek the Calm *Surrounded by Disaster
*The Human Spirit Tries to Remain

Complexity and Relativism (Reife)

*I'd Strike the Sun
if it Insulted Me
*Drowned Soul
*A Blighted Fruit Tree
*Monstrous Pictures of People
*Table of Contents and Additional Information

Free Will, Chance, and Fate (Torrey)

*Free Will and the Monkey Rope *Queequeg's Coffin
*Ahab & Fate
*Melville's World