Moby Dick: or The WhaleMoby Dick famously begins with the narratorial invocation Call me Ishmael. The narrator, like his biblical counterpart, is an outcast. Ishmael, who turns to the sea for meaning, relays to the audience the final voyage of the Pequod, a whaling vessel. Amid a story of tribulation, beauty, and madness, the reader is introduced to a number of characters, many of whom have names with religious resonance. The ships captain is Ahab, who Ishmael and his