white whale
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- description
- The monstrous whale that is the central object of Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt and his desire for immitigable, supernatural revenge.
- identification
- Moby Dick
- nature
- appalling brute
- notable_actions
- smashes boats, creates maelstroms, causes injuries
- object_of_1
- bloody hunt
- object_of_2
- supernatural revenge
- status
- hunted
Relationships
- attacksAhab's Boat
- description
- The White Whale violently assaults Ahab's boat, dashing its forehead against the bottom and sending it airborne.
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- the White Whale dashed his broad forehead against its bottom, and sent it, turning over and over, into the air
- attacksStubb's Boat
- description
- The White Whale, while entangled in lines, irresistibly drags and smashes Stubb's boat.
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- source_text
- irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach
- attacksFlask's Boat
- description
- The White Whale, while entangled in lines, irresistibly drags and smashes Flask's boat.
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- source_text
- irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:00.745Z
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- context
- is_implicated_in
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- source_text
- considering in what a devil’s chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale
- referenced_byAhab
- context
- intended_to_hunt
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- source_text
- he had already revealed his intention to hunt that mortal monster in person.
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- 2026-03-02T00:08:12.366Z
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- is_also_known_asMoby Dick
- description
- The narrative explicitly links the 'white whale' mentioned earlier with the specific name 'Moby Dick'.
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- source_text
- What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid. Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:19.435Z
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