How Would the Characters of "The Scarlet Letter" See the White Whale of Melville's "Moby Dick" In Melville's Moby Dick our narrator, Ishmael, has a unique view on the great white whale. "...all these are but subtle deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurement's cover nothing but the charnel-house within..." By examining his remarks, we can tell he is a very down-to-earth man; however, Melville uses a common theme of "how do you know for sure". He is saying, many times throughout the novel, that maybe nothing has any meaning. Despite this, Ishmeal gives numerous examples of what white can mean (i.e. the horror of an albino, or beauty of a white steed etc.) and proceeds to say Moby Dick is all of th....

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