Analysis Of The Book The Little Opposition Of The Night...

Stubb: Stubb is a man who loves to smoke his pipes and laugh in response to fear. His little opposition to going after Moby Dick shows how he believes in predestination and that all things in life are planned already, so he might as well make the most of them with a laugh and good smoke. This can be interpreted as a nervous reaction to what he knows will truly occur and the death that may ensue. He is afraid and the greater his fears become the more he smokes and frequently he laughs. This can be seen in the dream he has about Ahab kicking him and becoming a pyramid. His reaction when he awakes is to smoke off the anxiety and fear. He attempts to make his surroundings less fearful by interpreting them in different ways. He â€Å"presided over†¦show more content†¦Tashtego is the first man to strike a Sperm Whale on the voyage, but because he is on Stubb’s boat he receives no credit for the killing. Again, Tashtego is denied his accomplishment when he is the first man to set eyes upon Moby Dick, but Ahab proclaims he was the first to spot the whale; therefore he withholds the gold doubloon from the harpooner. Demonstrating racial inferiority. Daggoo: The main description given of Daggoo portrays him as â€Å"A gigantic, coal-black negro savage, with a lion-like tread-an Ahasuerus to behold. Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that sailors called them ring bolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to them†(106). As a child he voluntarily shipped on board a whaling ship and he has never seen any place in the world but Africa and Nantucket. He is a beast of a man characterized as â€Å"[he] retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all pomp of six feet five in his socks† (106). He is the Squire of Flask and is given the job of the third harpooneer. Flask: Flask is the third mate for the Pequod and is described as â€Å"short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him†(105). In the chapter where all of the characters discuss the images that they see encrusted upon the doubloon, Flask is the only man who states that he sees money.