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Thank you We sneak Moby dick narrative structure Allah shmoop

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what happens to our first person narrative as we get

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further into moby dick All right so shape shifting in

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the novel interesting concept Let's take a step back from

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the plot and examine the narrative structure At first it

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appears to be a simple first person narrative Call me

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but ish mills If at that point scene is doing

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all the heavy lifting and telling us what's what But

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shortly thereafter we meet they have and then things start

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to get a lot more complex So what happens to

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our first person narrative as we get further into moby

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dick Is this nick carraway And then he suddenly hands

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the ball off the gas It's actually almost even more

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complicated matter huh We have our first person narrator and

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like you said it we get we get a have

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thrown into the mix so we start getting like a

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habit soliloquies and you're like look it's ishmael like creepily

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sitting there like watching a have talk to himself you

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know how is he How is he narrating this They're

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actually scenes where it specifically says that a habit is

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alone you know again we come back to the unreliable

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narrator which we'll talk about later but we start to

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lose faith that it's actually just a smell narrating the

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story all of sudden at the beginning one of the

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chapters we get stage directions enter ahab it says which

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if you've ever gonna play you know that that is

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a stage direction and this isn't just a one time

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thing that like title with the chapters kind of also

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from show us this kind of stage direction type of

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narration and what it makes us think is that we're

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all just cast as characters in the play as actors

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in a play the fates are controlling us God is

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controlling us and there's nothing we can do about it

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We're just playing our roles and so we get this

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enter a happy which gives us that idea and then

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a have does enter and he is like no way

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he's like i am control my own fate I'm gonna

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find this whale i'm gonna kill him I'm gonna get

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him so there's that tension between between fate and freewill

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which shows up throughout the entire book between the stage

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directions and the soliloquies and smiles first person narration and

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these psychology chapters with your super stuffy and academic way

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start to think that maybe there isn't just one Narrator

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going on here What's the narrative structure of the novel

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