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Herman Melville, one of the more notable names in Gothic writing, saw the world in an unexpected way. Liberated from the Puritan talk, Melville especially delighted in the joys of the common world. Melville voyaged, and invested energy among Natives. In a few records he portrayed his good time among them, and displayed the possibility of respectable savages past the fringes of America. Without such catastrophe to fuel him, Melville wrote hopeful accounts of experience and energy. The world wasn't a snare or a test, yet a rich pearl shellfish to be sought after and celebrated. Genuine popularity, or if nothing else heritage, came later, with the distribution of Moby-Dick. A darker story, yet overwhelming with experience, Moby-Dick was without a doubt an account of catastrophe. Ahab, the notorious chief in the story, was driven by a fixation to chase down a whale that harmed him years preceding the story's start. As opposed to tolerating this as nature being somewhat hazardous Ahab, ag ainst the better judgment of different individuals from his team, anthropomorphised the main whale, considering it to be a somebody, not something, that wronged him and des...