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Moby Dick’s Captain Ahab, whose obsession with the great white Leviathan dooms his crew; he is Ishmael – even the name is similar – who ‘alone survived’ when the Pequod went down. Ismay is the Ancient Mariner, cast out from the community of mankind; he is Dr Frankenstein, whose creation became a monster that pursued him across icy wastes; and he is Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, who also jumped from a sinking ship and was forced to live on without honour.
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