For my final project, I wanna piece together the thoughts I had throughout the semester so it ties together towards a bigger statement about this book/why its important and still is. I will go through my old blog posts/essays to get some ideas, but i definitely want to focus on Moby Dick and how its messages from the 1800s are super relevant today. I wanna stick to a more modern lens/interpretation with this book in my essay.
That’s all I really have so far right now, I honestly get my ideas while I am writing so once I start with a thesis I’ll hopefully have more details to post about!
I’m glad that you want to do something more reflexive, looking back at what you learned and thought along the way of reading the novel. I might suggest that you stick to that rather than trying to make large claims about how this book mattered in its time in an ours. Perhaps you, instead, think about how, when, and where this book started to matter for you as a reader. Pulling out quotes and close reading and demonstrating that process of connecting with the book might be a starting point; then, look for scholarship about how this book is about readers and reading.– and for that I would remind you to go back to the readings from the beginning of the term: Philbrook and Hoare. But, this actually sounds good!