Ishmael, a young man, joins a whaler boat, the Pequod, with a pagan harpooner named Queequeg. The ship is commanded by Captain Achab, a man who has lost a leg in his confrontation with a whale called Moby Dick. Although the voyage seems to conform to the habitual patterns - the descriptions of the fishing of the whale are extraordinary - Ismael soon realizes that the captain of the Pequod has a peculiar behavior. Achab is a competent sailor but his main interest is not the capture of cetaceans, but the revenge against the animal that mutilated it. The sinister oracles add to the scenes a dark tint that reaches its climax with the sighting of the longed whale.
The animal, whose back is covered with twisted harpoons, does not let itself be overcome. On the contrary, it attacks the whaling boats causing the deaths of its occupants. Then it is directed against the ship whose sticks destroys, finally causing its sinking. Achab and the whole crew die, except for Ishmael, who is saved perched on the coffin of Queequeg, the harpooner. Although the argument appears to be simple, the truth is that Moby Dick far transcends the story of adventures. Conceived from Melville's personal experiences, combined with elements from Spenser, Dante, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Thomas Carlyle, Cervantes and the Bible, it is an emblematic work and a reflection full of symbolism about the human being's ability to cope with An inexorable fate that he thinks he can master.
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