Moby Dick is about capitalism

There is a linear line of development between the pursuit of sperm oil in Moby Dick and the contemporary fossil fuel industry.

Spermaceti candles, made from a waxy substance found in the head cavities of the whales, were sought after for their clean, bright flames.

Sperm oil > kerosene> fossil fuel peak sperm oil was reached in 1846.

The Grand Armada describes two ways of marking whales Drugging.

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• Introduction
• The two chapters we are going to focus on
• Moby Dick is about capitalism ← You are here
• Moby Dick is about gender
• Moby Dick is about ways of looking at the world
• Moby Dick is about uncertainty and certainty

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