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In order to test this, God sends his messenger down to strike Job and his life with a slew of calamities, including boils and loss of money. Job has no reason to blame himself for this punishment, yet refuses to curse god. In the end, he is rewarded for his ongoing faith.
This allegory of the Book of Job can be found in other literary works besides just Moby-Dick. For example, the struggle of an essentially good person against unreasonable evil in the ongoing pursuit of goodness is a common theme in almost all of Emily Dickinson's poems. A prevalent theme in many of her poems is the a struggle with depression without any reason. Like Job, Dickinson is an otherwise virtuous individual but for no explanatory reason, suffers from the evils of depression.
Henry David Thoreau, likewise, spends his life struggling with explaining the co-existence of good and evil and trying to cope with living in such a world. In his philosophical treatise Walden Pond, Thoreau leaves the modern world, in which he associates with evil, in order to seclude himself and reconnect with the natural world, in which he associates with being good. Yet even here he continues to struggle with the evils that penetrate all aspects of...
Thus, all good must be countered by bad, otherwise there is no way of knowing when something is good. Trying to identify the good from the bad and keeping faith in achieving the good even in the midst of unnecessary evil, is what makes one human and makes life meaningful. Without this contrast, there would be no life. This is the message found in Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby Dick.
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold. Moby Dick: Or, the Whale. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. 1986.
Brodhead, Richard. New Essays on Moby-Dick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987.
Davey, Michael J. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. New York: Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2003.
Higgins, Brian. Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. 1992.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics Series. 2003.
Selby, Nick. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick: Essays - Articles - Reviews. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999.
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold. Moby Dick: Or, the Whale. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. 1986.
Brodhead, Richard. New Essays on Moby-Dick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987.
Davey, Michael J. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. New York: Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2003.
Higgins, Brian. Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. 1992.
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