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Moby Dick is a book all about vengeance. Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, uses many cases of vengeance. It is a chain reaction of vengeance, with Captain Ahab at the start of it all, then moves on to Moby Dick and Starbuck. Ahab is the start of all vengeance in the movie. In the movie, Ahab started off on his whaling expedition like any other whaling ship, but he had a different motive, and that was to get his payback on Moby Dick, for taking his leg. This is basically the whole plot of the story, and it is why many things happen to the ship and crew. Ahab’s quest for vengeance ends up getting all of the crew killed except for Ishmael. While Ahab was looking for Moby Dick, they didn’t end up getting a lot of other whales for oil, which

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