 Hello friends, welcome to arpitakarwa.com India's finest online coaching for English literature. Today we'll be covering a novel, a very interesting one in fact and it is called Moby Dick and it's written by Herman Melville. Now friends, the opening line of the work is called Call Me Ishmael. You have to remember that Captain Ahaap falls for his pride and the name of the board that rescues Ishmael is Rachel. So these are some of the information that you have to remember. Let the exam perspective say this is very very important. Now friends, Ishmael is a narrator of the story. He was a school teacher and now he's a sailor. Now this guy wants to go whale hunting though he had done a lot of sailing but he had not gone whale hunting before. So he goes to Massachusetts and stays in and in which was very crowded. There he meets Kew Quake who has a lot of tattoos on his body and he used to catch whales with a spear. Ishmael was afraid of him initially but in the morning they both left for Nantiket Island and later became friends. Ishmael noticed that Kew Quake is very kind in nature. Now they reach near a ship named Peekwad and there they meet two guys Pelleck and Bildad. They both tell Ishmael and Kew Quake that this ship's owner is Ahaap who is a mad man. So friends Ahaap is not there for now and these guys are just discussing him. Ishmael gets to know that Ahaap's leg was bitten by a stubborn whale named Mobbytec. Now this is a white colored dangerous whale. Even after listening to all these frightening stories Ishmael and Kew Quake decide to go whale hunting on Christmas with Ahaap and his men. Now before leaving a guy named Elijah makes a prophecy that the journey is going to be dangerous. Now Ishmael is introduced to whale hunting on this ship and he also meets Starbuck, Flask and Stubb. These three are very good whale hunters and now Ahaap comes to the terrace of the ship. This is the first time he enters the story. He has an artificial leg and says they have a normal ship but it's a special mission. He said they need to kill Mobbytec. Ahaap tells everybody that whoever sees that white whale first he will give him a gold coin. Now Starbuck says that Ahaap is not here for some kind of revenge. Rather he has come for some profit. Ahaap had only one mission in life which was to kill Mobbytec who took his leg. Now in the sea their ship meets a lot of other ships. Some of them were experienced and some were accidental. Some faced Tom's, some faced Mobbytec also. So one of those ships was named Town Ho which faced Mobbytec. Now guys their ship meets other ships and a major part of the novel goes into this. So this ship reaches the Indian and Pacific Ocean and during this journey they catch many whales but Ahaap's life mission was to kill Mobbytec only. Now there was a carpenter on Ahaap's ship and Ahaap asked him to make a new leg for him as the old one was distorted. So Kyuke thought he was dying so he asked the carpenter to make a coffin for him. So he did not die and he got better afterwards. Now the coffin was left of no use but guys it will be used later in the story. Now let's move ahead. So guys Ahaap takes the help of five people to kill Mobbytec. Out of the five their leader is named Fadala and he's a very dangerous man. So all these five people are from an unnamed country in Asia and have come to the Pickwad ship to help Ahaap kill Mobbytec. So Fadala is a devilish type of man and he would not stop until he catches Mobbytec. They roam around Africa and finally reach Japan and during the journey they meet a lot of ships. There's some house sense that Mobbytec is nearby. So Ahaap was the first person who saw Mobbytec and for the next three days they chase Mobbytec. Now guys there is an iron smith on the ship and Ahaap asks him to make a new fish hunting spear. Now Ahaap tries to hit Mobbytec with that spear but he misses and it hits a small boat nearby. The boat flips and all the people in that small boat safely come to the ship. The second time when Ahaap tries to kill the whale this time Fadala gets caught and he falls into the water. So guys when Ahaap tried for the third time Starbucks warned Ahaap that they need to leave this mad mission or else they all will die. But Ahaap doesn't listen to him and he hits Mobbytec with the spear. But this time Ahaap himself gets tangled in the rope attached to the spear. He gets hanged there and dies. Now guys after this Mobbytec hits the ship and the ship sinks. So everybody dies except for Ishmael. So you might be wondering how he did not die. Well Ishmael uses the coffin. So it was originally made for QQ egg as I already told you. He used that coffin to float. As I told you they meet many ships during this journey. One of those ships is Rachel and it saves his life. So he does not drown in the water and later narrates the story and that's how this novel ends. Now some facts and codes for you friends. Firstly the novel plot was partly based on the story of the Whaleship Essex which was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. The white whale Mobbytec is often interpreted as a symbol of nature's power. The unknowable and humanity struggle against forces beyond its control. So friends some important lines from the working clode. I know not all that may be coming but be it what it will. I'll go to it laughing. It is not down on any map. True places never are. And third is better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. So that will be all for this lecture friends. We'll meet soon in the next lecture. Until the time we meet next, happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com.