Similar to when Ishmael experiences his first lowering on the mast and dissociates, he also is presented dissociating during his shift to operate the try-works. While he thinks about the ghastly sights of the shadows the fire makes with the harpooners, his mind subconsciously resorts to almost wanting to harm himself; and in seeing how liberating that feels to get away from whaling and his duties. He then feels instant regret, but is still harmed by religious psychosis such as these that creates abnormal functioning to how he should view freewill: ” All is Vanity”… and “the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain”(Melville 465). Here, it reads as religious psychosis, creating internal shame on himself for having these wild thoughts of self-harm, hence, reflecting on the chants from memory almost as if to warn himself– not soothe him. While these verses do avoid him from inflicting self-harm in imagining it, it instead creates a stumblingblock into navigating free will. Putting a label that “all is vain” while slaving himself away to the whaling industry instigates now more of a social reframe in order to preserve human labor while killing the dreams, passions and aspirations of people.