Comments for kpyon1225's Blog http://kpyon1225.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:10:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 Comment on Response to Ch. 73~80 (Moby-Dick) by nshan http://kpyon1225.edublogs.org/2008/10/05/response-to-ch-7380-moby-dick/comment-page-1/#comment-3 nshan Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:10:24 +0000 http://kpyon1225.edublogs.org/?p=23#comment-3 I never knew that the Manilas were said to be the servants of the devil. It explains a lot, since Fedellah was compared to the devil himself, and his five followers are his followers. But Fedellah answers to Ahab, which makes me think that Ahab must be worse than the devil, although its hard to imagine such evil. I think that they are merely suspicious of Fedellah because he doesn't socialize with the crew members, like the others do. Again, in reference to the devil's followers, I feel like the devil is the one who stays behind and plans, while the servants are the ones who actually go out and put that plan into action. Therefore, it seems fitting that Fedellah would stay hidden, while his crew does all the work. I never knew that the Manilas were said to be the servants of the devil. It explains a lot, since Fedellah was compared to the devil himself, and his five followers are his followers. But Fedellah answers to Ahab, which makes me think that Ahab must be worse than the devil, although its hard to imagine such evil.
I think that they are merely suspicious of Fedellah because he doesn’t socialize with the crew members, like the others do. Again, in reference to the devil’s followers, I feel like the devil is the one who stays behind and plans, while the servants are the ones who actually go out and put that plan into action. Therefore, it seems fitting that Fedellah would stay hidden, while his crew does all the work.

]]> Comment on Response to Ch. 43~47 (Moby-Dick) by “For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of a man’s blood was spilled for it.” | When the hurly-burly's done http://kpyon1225.edublogs.org/2008/09/23/response-to-ch-4347-moby-dick/comment-page-1/#comment-2 “For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of a man’s blood was spilled for it.” | When the hurly-burly's done Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:20:18 +0000 http://kpyon1225.edublogs.org/?p=19#comment-2 [...] Kanako gets medieval on us: I found it interesting how Ishmael calls Queequeg’s sword hitting the loom and altering the overall pattern “chance”. This reminded me of Fortuna, the goddess of fortune in Roman mythology and personification of luck. I was introduced to this goddess when I read Dante’s Inferno last year in my Medieval Lit class. Fortuna holds in her hand the Wheel of Fortune, which arbitrarily determines what fortune or misfortune would come to individuals. The Wheel of Fortune is symbolic of the endless changes in life from prosperity to disaster, over which people have absolutely no control to prevent misfortune from coming to him or to keep the fortune he has now from leaving him. The discussion of the Loom of Time and chance must have reminded me of Fortuna; Ishmael’s emotional and psychological ups and downs, as well as the physical ups and downs of the plot, that we have seen from earlier on in the book are also related to the Wheel of Fortune, since Ishmael (or anyone else on the ship for that matter) doesn’t have any control on what is going happen next on the whaling voyage. [...] [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment's server IP (72.34.60.86) doesn't match the comment's URL host IP () and so is spam. [...] Kanako gets medieval on us: I found it interesting how Ishmael calls Queequeg’s sword hitting the loom and altering the overall pattern “chance”. This reminded me of Fortuna, the goddess of fortune in Roman mythology and personification of luck. I was introduced to this goddess when I read Dante’s Inferno last year in my Medieval Lit class. Fortuna holds in her hand the Wheel of Fortune, which arbitrarily determines what fortune or misfortune would come to individuals. The Wheel of Fortune is symbolic of the endless changes in life from prosperity to disaster, over which people have absolutely no control to prevent misfortune from coming to him or to keep the fortune he has now from leaving him. The discussion of the Loom of Time and chance must have reminded me of Fortuna; Ishmael’s emotional and psychological ups and downs, as well as the physical ups and downs of the plot, that we have seen from earlier on in the book are also related to the Wheel of Fortune, since Ishmael (or anyone else on the ship for that matter) doesn’t have any control on what is going happen next on the whaling voyage. [...]

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