The excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby Di-ck which best develops the theme of the novel concerning man’s insistence on manufacturing his own destruction is:
B. And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
One of the important theme in the novel “Moby Di-ck” 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. Ahab had a strong belief in the fate because of which he thinks that it is in his destiny to slay down the whale. The desire for revenge exists stands secondary for him. He combines his egoism with the feeling of revenge and moves on to destroy the whale. He ignores the prophecies about the destruction that will cause to his ship and himself if he moved on. In the end, he falls prey to his own destruction causing his identity to extinct.
The matching of the quotes is as follows:
"O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" – John Donne
This quote uses oxymoron, since it is using words that cancel each other out. These words being miserable abundance and begarly riches, together seem contradictory but it does describe correctly.
"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." – George Bernard Shaw
This one shows a paradox where it states that young people waste their youth. Makes you think about how a young person would waste their youth still being young.
"I can resist anything but temptation." – Oscar Wilde
This one shows paradox, since it is more than a couple of words, that are describing an action that is contradicting itself. In this case resisting anything but temptation.
"How is it possible to have a civil war?" – George Carlin
This one shows an o 2 oxymoron, since it consts of 2 words that are contradicting eachother. Making us ask ourselves, "How can there be a war that is civil?"
The excerpt B most clearly suggests that George and Hazel are living in a dystopian society in the story Harrison Bergeron.:
<em>B. All this equality was due to the 211th,212th and 213th amendments to the constitution and to the unceasing vigilance of the.....Handicapper general.</em>
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