Moby Dick 에 나타난 Ahab의 부조리성 = Moby Dick:Ahab's Abaurdity

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The purpose of this paper is to show how Herman Melville's Ahab in Moby Dick prefigures the absurd hero of Albert Camus.
Casmus states that the universe is irrational and that man is rational. The resulting conflict between the two produces a moment of consciousness. Man realizes that death makes life meaningless. Realizing his own individual mortality, the absurd man revolts against the injustices of the universe. His revolt sustains the conflict and his lucid vision of the absurd. The absurd hero triumphs over the irrational universe by defining his own fate.
Herman Melville's Ahab experiences, the moment of consciousness when Moby Dick, the emblem of the irrational, sweeps off his leg. Ahab revolts against this injustice by seeking out this symbol of the irrational, attempting to destroy it, Similar to Camus's Sisyphus, Ahab suffers anquish in his isolation. His perception produces a hatred for death and a passion for life. Ahab defies the insignificance of man by revolting against and unconquerable universe. By defining his own fate, Ahab triumphs in his defeat by defiantly bearing the burden of reality.