Herman Melville, one of the most iconic names in Gothic literature, saw the world differently. Free from Puritan rhetoric, Melville greatly appreciated the pleasures of the natural world. Melville traveled and spent time among the natives. In several accounts he described his favorable time among them and showed the idea of ​​the noble savages beyond the borders of America. Without such tragedy to fuel him, Melville wrote optimistic stories of adventure and excitement. The world was not a trap or a test, but a rich pearl oyster to be chased and celebrated. Real fame, or at least legacy, came later, with the publication of Moby-Dick. A darker story, but still full of adventure, Moby-Dick was undoubtedly a story of tragedy. Ahab, the iconic captain of the story, was driven by an obsession to hunt a whale that had injured him years before the story begins. Rather than accept this as a somewhat dangerous nature, Ahab, against the better judgment of the other members of his crew, anthropomorphized the titular whale, seeing it as someone, not something, who wronged him and desisted....