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Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick.
His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship’s ever pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable willfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
Which best describes the theme Melville develops in this excerpt from the chapter?
obsession
optimism
love
loss
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Obsession.
The description—“unsurrenderable willfulness,” a “fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance,” and Ahab’s rigid, single-minded stance—emphasizes his monomaniacal fixation rather than optimism, love, or loss.
The description—“unsurrenderable willfulness,” a “fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance,” and Ahab’s rigid, single-minded stance—emphasizes his monomaniacal fixation rather than optimism, love, or loss.
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