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Read the excerpt from Chapter 41 of Moby-Dick.

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.

What theme of the novel does this excerpt best address?
nature’s indifference to humankind
humankind’s indifference to nature
the self-destructive nature of obsession
the personal empowerment that comes from obsession

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the self-destructive nature of obsession

Explanation: the passage calls the whale a "monomaniac incarnation" of "malicious agencies" that eat away at men "till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung," emphasizing how obsession damages and destroys the obsessed.