In Chapter 28 of Moby-ick, the ailment of mankind which is best symbolized by Ahab’s plight is obsession with the past.
One of the important theme in the novel “Moby-ick” is about the relationship between nature and man. The novel is about a man, Ahab, who goes out in the natural world to disturb the balance of nature by killing the animals. Though at the end of the novel, it is the nature who remains unchanged and the man has to witness a failure.