Character Traits/Moral

Values/Messages/Themes
Examples Evidence/Evidences
Captain Ahab offers Gold for the crew who sees the whal
first. Later on when the crew realizes it is too dangerous to
find the white whale, he threatens to kill them.

When Captain Boomer from the Samuel Enderby refuse

1. Captain Ahab to help Captain Ahab find Moby Dick, Captain Ahab gets
wants revenge. angry and chase them out of the Pequod.

When the oil barrels are leaking, Captain Ahab refuses t

stop the ship to fix the problem. He does not care about
losing the oil and losing money.

When Pip is asked to join the whalers to go out on the boat t

catch some whales, he is too afraid that he jumps off the boa
for a few times. Stubb and other whalers were not happy an
2. Captain Ahab
they leave him in the sea. Later, the Pequod and Captain Aha
saves Pip.
rescue Pip. Pip sees Captain Ahab as his God.

One day, Captain Ahab is mad because no one sees the white
3. Captain Ahab whale. He throws the map into the sea without thinking its
is not rational. consequences. The crew is shocked because without the map
they cannot sail in the sea.

4. Starbuck does One night, when Captain Ahab is sleeping in his room,
not kill Captain Starbuck has a chance to kill him with a gun. However, he
Ahab even cannot do it and he leaves the room without killing him.
though he does
not like him.

5. Captain Captain Gardiner from the Rachel is determined to find his

Gardiner wants missing son even though it is dangerous and they have no
to find his son. idea where Moby Dick is.

6. The whalers Even though the whalers know that Captain Ahab has lost
work hard to one of his legs to the dangerous white whale, they remain
get money for brave to go out and catch more whales for the money and
their families. gold.

When Ishmael is stranded in the middle of the sea for two

7. The Rachel days and two nights. The Rachel finds him while searching
saves Ishmael. for their missing boat. Captain Boomer is kind enough to giv
Ishmael food and drink to keep him alive.