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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Captain_AhabCaptain Ahab - Wikipedia

    Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone.

  2. Ahab es un personaje ficticio y uno de los protagonistas de Moby Dick (1851) de Herman Melville. Es el capitán monomaníaco del ballenero Pequod. En un viaje anterior, la ballena blanca Moby Dick le amputó una pierna a Ahab, quien ahora lleva una prótesis hecha de hueso de ballena.

  3. Capitán de navío ballenero, Ahab es uno de los personajes creados por el escritor americano Herman Melville para protagonizar su novela Moby Dick, publicada originalmente en el año 1851.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Moby-DickMoby-Dick - Wikipedia

    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

    • United States
    • October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom), November 14, 1851 (US)
  5. Captain Ahab, fictional character, a one-legged captain of the whaling vessel Pequod in the novel Moby Dick (1851), by Herman Melville. From the time that his leg is bitten off by the huge white whale called Moby Dick, Captain Ahab monomaniacally pursues his elusive nemesis.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. Ahab, the Pequods obsessed captain, represents both an ancient and a quintessentially modern type of hero. Like the heroes of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, Ahab suffers from a single fatal flaw, one he shares with such legendary characters as Oedipus and Faust.

  7. The “monomaniacal” captain of the Pequod, Ahab is a brooding, proud, solitary figure, deathly angry that the monster Moby Dick has eaten his leg. Ahab vows revenge on the animal, even though others, like Starbuck, warn him that no “revenge” is possible against a “dumb animal.”.