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English Essay April 2003 (Language: Ishmael's Persona) Melville created a god-like narrator that provided a stark contrast to the human-frailty-driven journey to seek out the white whale. Throughout Moby-Dick, "Ishmael" is sometimes quite non-existent, and at other times vocal and communicative; much like a specific protagonist in a certain well known religious text. These qualities are never fleeting, and once the voyage is underway, Ishmael seems to speak to no-one directly except Queequeg; although he takes notice of any dialogue or important situation on the Pequod regardless of when or where it might take place. Ishmael, as he chooses to be named, is always shrouded in mystery; one can never fully wrap ones mind around our narrator, because he simply does not supply a basis on which to judge him. Even calling the narrator "him" is a liberty rather than a known fact, for while Ishmael does appear to be a man, in...

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