Final Project proposal: I will be elaborating and extending my second essay regarding chapter 64 of Moby Dick, titled “Stubb’s Supper”, during which Stubb begins making his meal of their whale while thousands of sharks can be heard simultaneously attacking what remains of the whale below him in the water.
My thesis is going to argue that this scene is meant to symbolize the consumerist society they live in and what becomes necessary to survive in this capitalist system. In order to participate in this capitalist society, it becomes necessary for an individual in the workforce to become violent themselves in order to survive this type of system.
I will be demonstrating this through an essay accompanied with an illustration or poem [still deciding] that symbolizes and demonstrates this violent relationship in regard to capitalist adventures.
Sorry that I missed this, but it was posted last, so I did not see it. Good ideas here, and I just want to clarify=- you are arguing that the scene criticizes capitalism? You need a claim; and you need to clarfiy what the scene is saying about ‘consumerist society’.