请问mobby dick的主题是是什么呀?英语回答,谢谢

请问mobby dick的主题是是什么呀?英语回答,谢谢
请问mobby dick的主题是是什么呀?英语回答,谢谢

请问mobby dick的主题是是什么呀?英语回答,谢谢
There are two major themes in this book:
1.Subjectivity of perception
Chief among the thematic content are Melville's epistemological views.The American edition has Ahab "discover no sign" (Ch,133) of the whale when he is staring in the deep.In fact,Moby Dick is then swimming up at him.In the British edition,Melville changed the word "discover" to "perceive." And with good reason,for "discovery" means finding what is already there,but "perceiving," or better still,perception is "a matter of shaping what exists by the way in which we see it." The point is not that Ahab would discover the whale as an object,but that he would perceive it as a symbol of his making.This theme pervades the whole book,perhaps never so emphatically as in "The Doubloon" (Ch.99),where each crewmember perceives the coin in a way shaped by his own personality.
2.Race
While it may be rare for a mid-nineteenth century American book to feature black characters in a non-slavery context,slavery is frequently mentioned.The theme of race is primarily carried by Pip,the diminutive black cabin boy.When Pip has almost drowned,Ahab,genuinely touched by Pip's suffering,questions him gently,Pip "can only parrot the language of an advertisement for the return of a fugitive slave:'Pip!Reward for Pip!'"
All races are represented among the crewmembers of the Pequod.Ishmael and Queequeg's sensual friendship initiates a kind of racial harmony that is shattered when the crew's dancing erupts into racial conflict in "Midnight,Forecastle" (Ch.40).Fifty chapters later,Pip suffers mental disintegration after some incidents where he is reminded that as a slave he would be worth less money than a whale.Commodified and brutalized,"Pip becomes the ship's conscience."